I really liked the Seattle movement.

I really liked the Seattle movement.

I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don't know if that was the best thing for Guns.

I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.

I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.

I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.

I'm in California, and that usually leans Democratic, and that's usually where I lean anyway... I would lean Democrat; I would lean Obama.

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.

Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever.

There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.'

Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

I'll never go against my morals.

The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

A long, hot bath is a real treat. But from a 'green' point of view, that's probably what it should be: an occasional treat.

Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!

I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.

Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

With the right outlook, you can learn to entertain yourself and entertain each other so you can enjoy doing what you're doing. There's obviously gonna be highs and lows, and the trick to it is to be able to maintain composure and stay high even when you're in the lows. That way, when you hit the highs ,it'll be twice as killer.

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple hero moments, killing with a lethal bow and arrow along the way.

Every sales manager knows they need a solid plan, the right people, and a pipeline to be successful. But successful sales managers learn to balance the three.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.