Slash Quotes

I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.

You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.

Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.

Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.

GET YOURSELF TOGETHER DRINK TILL YOU DROP FORGET ABOUT TOMORROW AND HAVE ANOTHER SHOT

Being a rockstar is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be.

If I ever go bald, I'll kill myself.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

I guess you could say there are two Slashes. There's the crazy, rock-and-roll Slash, he's wild. And then there's the real Slash- he collects miniature soaps and treats his hookers real nice.

A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.

I dont believe in having regrets.

I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.

I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.

That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans.

Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

For me, the original Guns N' Roses is the embodiment of a certain kind of chemistry that really couldn't be duplicated.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.

Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out.

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.

One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.

[the best advice about women] was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing."

I do all my interviews on the toilet.

I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.

Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems.

If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

I was the one that allegedly "quit and joined my old band." That wasn't true. But it was said so matter-of-factly on the Internet that the guys weren't really sure what I was up to.

My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

The era itself has nothing to do with anything. We weren't really attached to that at all. I just saw this thing where they had a Poison concert on VH1, and to me, that is being attached to an era.

The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.

Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.