I want to be in the big show, and to be in the big show, you have to practice. I have this attitude now that I'm going to take all the greatness I can. Nothing's going to stop me.

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

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.

It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.

It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand