It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.

Again its time to pray for peace.

If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

Life's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you.

Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking

I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

No matter what is your name, gender, race and nationality, you too are fully capable in turning your dreams into realities.

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

Every character I play is me, always has been.

The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.

Today anyone on the Internet can find out more about what you read, think, and earn than the secret police of Stalin or Hitler could have learned.

Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.

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.