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

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.

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

Men can never have the true power they were endowed with by creation, until they respect and protect the women and children of the world.

The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what.

Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us.

The knowledge of the soul is knowledge of the universe

I love going back to vinyl! I still have a great vinyl collection that I'm building up every couple of months. It's something I love to do.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe.