If it shakes you in the right places, it's Gods gift.

Fake it until you make it.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

Guns 'N' Roses music was part of the fabric of all people.

In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.