I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.

GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together.

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

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.

I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.

I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.

I want to be in the big show, and to be in the big show, you have to practice. I have this attitude now that I'm going to take all the greatness I can. Nothing's going to stop me.

I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers.

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us.

If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll.

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

Loud is a way of life.

My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived.

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.

People fight, they get angry, they do drugs, and they do crazy things.

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.

There are so many Al Anon fans and friends who have shown me wonderful love, prayers, thoughts! I thank everyone for this. It feels great to have wonderful people behind you, pushing and praying for you. Mostly, I don't want to let myself down, but they encourage me not to let them down.

When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it from the first song through the last song. It's been so long since a band has put out a record like that.

You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.

You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You can't give up. I wouldn't give up. I didn't give up - or doubt myself - in becoming a successful musician with a successful band.

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately you dont realize this until youre getting sober but the reason why youre depressed all the time is its the drugs that are depressing you.

The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping and when you are in and out of consciousness you cant do that to best of your ability.

Drummers are conductors we set the pace for the music so if youre not relaxed and feeling right the whole thing goes out the window.

You figure that time could heal all wounds but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.

These haters pretending that its all good. Say that sh t in person man I wish yall would.

Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every television programme the same.

'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They care about making your play, your script, not some network production. We're treated like playwrights, not like fodder for some machine.

My plant-based diet plus fish is to credit for my low blood pressure, high energy, and robust immunity.

New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it for it is a faculty of the psyche.

In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.

I dont think courting and dating is a liability. I actually think it can be a blessing.

I'm curvy.

Its through our expenses that we become richer or poorer regardless of how much money we make.

I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called in to look at it. But I'm not the only one.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.