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

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.

It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.

Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

Even the good guys, ' she said, 'can't win all the time.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.

e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

I'm truly grateful for the opportunities the people of Columbus and the people of Indiana have given me to serve.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.