Slash can take three notes and make a beautiful solo. And that's one thing I've always really admired about his guitar playing. I'm a huge Slash fan all around.

When you stop worrying about all the things that can go along with playing in a band and you let go and do it because it's fun to do, things seem to work.

That's what's nice about playing festivals, too. You're on this huge, enormous stage and you've got 200,000 watts of power blowing your guitars all over the place. It sounds good.

I guess my guitar heroes shifted from people like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix to people like Johnny Marr or John Squire.

I will never ask of you the impossible, I just ask you to love me in the best way you can.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

That's the job of our line. Get it deep, cause some commotion, be physical and try to get some garbage goals.

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

Enhancing long term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims.

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

People need to start becoming more aware of what's going on and doing something to fix it.

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.