I don't know where I'm rated. I don't pay attention to that. I'm really so just all into my craft. It's not a contest. I try to play the best.

I have always been a huge sports fan, but more of the pedestrian and 'homer' sort.

I have panic attacks here and there, like in the weirdest places ever, and I've learned to deal with them.

I've had a panic disorder since I was sixteen, and they always said that's a subset of depression. And I'm like, 'I don't have depression.'

I learned, by the time I was twenty, I'm not gonna die from a panic attack; you feel like you're going to.

One of my first memories is marching with my mom. I was in kindergarten with with the Catholic ladies when Martin Luther King Jr. got shot. We wore the black armbands and marched downtown.

I just don't like reality TV.

I had a column for the 'Seattle Weekly' for five years, and there was one column that was called 'How To Be A Man,' and it was kind of tongue in cheek; it was really tongue in cheek. And I got a book deal from that column.

I'm a book nerd, and I've seen authors that I love, I've gone and seen them speak or read from a book.

Personally, I had made a good amount of dough for a 30-year-old guy, but I didn't know a thing about money. I'm not a dumb guy, but I couldn't figure them out.

Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go.

I have a wife and two kids.

I've been very fortunate. But rich? People make huge assumptions about the guys in Gn'R.

When you know you have a good song, when you're onstage, even if it's just a weird, basic energy, you know your song is good.

I never had a personal beef with Axl, truth be told.

It's a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it's not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.

Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't tell anymore if it's gonna be good to an outside listener.

Everybody in Seattle thought I was the chosen one, musically wise. You know, if anyone was going to make it, it was going to be that guy.

Three weeks into being in Hollywood, I was playing with Slash through an ad in the paper.

I have a teenage daughter and a 10-year-old daughter. Things are pink and fluffy at my house, with two little dogs. It's pretty funny to be me now. And I'm in on the joke that is my life.

Never in my life have I thought, 'Man, I gotta get a Grammy.'

I read Slash's book because we were on the road together with Velvet Revolver when that came out.

Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.

I came up in the punk rock scene of Seattle.

Music was going to be my thing. Was I going to make a living at it? That was kind of a joke. It was just my passion, and if I was broke doing my passion, so be it.

We wrote the songs we wrote - we took from our own experiences, melded it together, and wrote what became 'Appetite For Destruction.'

My twenties were tumultuous at best... I think.

You can't mass produce somebody's heart and soul. It's a very delicate thing.

Rock n' roll is a volatile thing; at least, it's supposed to be.

It's volatile with GNR. Every night, it's anarchy on stage. Who knows what's gonna happen? That's rock n' roll, man.

Axl did sometimes have volatile actions, but I knew that guy as a whole - all the good stuff, too.

My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.

I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.'

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.

Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.

I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL.

Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking.

Even before 'Moon,' I did a short film called 'Whistle,' and it had a lot of the things that I thought I would need to be able to do on a feature film: I shot on location, there was special FX work, there was stunt work, we used squibs, I shot on 35 mm film.

I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.

I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me.

I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved.

After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'

I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker.

When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.

I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.

I don't know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent!

I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to.

I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.

'Warcraft' is going to be a period of my life I treasure and loathe at the same time.