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

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.

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

A people so primitive that they did not know how to get money except by working for it.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

The key [to sharing the gospel] is that you be inspired of God, that you ask Him for direction and then go and do as the Spirit prompts you.

I'm not vouching for Putin's character, he seems like a shady guy. Hard to see why he's a threat was.

There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself.