Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be 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.

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

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.

Who have you chosen to become?

You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

I kind of forget what it's like to be a dude who grew up in the south sometimes. I want to refresh my memory and remember why I love it [there] so much.

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

In films, people sometimes forget and concentrate on the fight itself, which is great, but the 15 minutes that come beforehand are equally as breathtaking.

I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story?

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.