If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.

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.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

I guess us folks in California are kind of straitlaced and old-fashioned."Hahaha, I thought on the way downstairs. I never thought I'd say those words with a straight face...

Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.

People are intelligent

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.

It's an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our days and fill our eyes with light.