Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.

Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.

I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you dont have your health, you have nothing.

Loud is a way of life.

Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me.

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them.

I have to say, the coolest person I ever met in my whole life is John Mellencamp. I never met a person who was more secure about himself and his person.

I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation

A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.

Pessimistic thoughts will only yield trees unwilling to bear edible fruit. Optimistic thinking will always feed those who are willing to sit at your table".

No-one knows enough to righteously say something is impossible.“With God ALL things are possible.”Now tell me, what does that leave out?

I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad; I just don't think of it.

The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

What I'm talking about is the order of deportation, the sequence of deportation. It is almost impossible to move 11 million illegal immigrants overnight. You do it in steps.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.