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

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.

I came up in the punk rock scene of Seattle.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I have a wife and two kids.

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

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.

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.

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 just don't like reality TV.

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

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