Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.

Fresh air makes me throw up. I can't handle it. I'd rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.

I've always said it's important to take advice from people who have what you want because otherwise, people are just guessing.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

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

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.