It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.

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.

The world of most men is given to them by their culture..

A woman accepted anything from life and made it the best

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

We must remain steadfast in our commitment to our troops, and to those fighting for a free and democratic Iraq because freedom makes our country and the world a safer place.

Love is a skill you learn.

All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.