I knew deep inside that it didn`t feel right. I didn`t understand any more what was happening or what direction it was taking. - On leaving Guns N` Roses

Axl isn`t really 24, he`s a million of years... he`s seen everything.

"A lot of the time when I was using (drugs), I`d just end up with a guitar, writing or recording some pretty depressing songs. I thought they were good at the time, and a couple are not too bad, but a lot of the shit I listen back to and think, ugh, that`s fucking depressing."

"I guess in some ways I was sort of a balancing factor between Axl and the rest of the guys at one point. I don`t know how it evolved to where it is now. I don`t know what goes on with them now."

"Ah...it...it`s okay. I`ve known other bands, and they always talk about, `We looked at this singer but his hair was too short,` or his hair was too long, or he didn`t dress right. Oh fuck it, ya know? After being in Guns N` Roses and Axl being the singer, who the fuck could I get that would even approach him? I can`t, but I figured I can sing enough."

"We`re not as crazy as we used to be. Nobody`s laid out with a jones anymore. Now we know what we have to do and we do it. What`s fun is getting to meet all the people whose music we listen to. It`s a gas! We met Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick ... he was the greatest! He hung out with us when we played Rockford, Illinois and he got totally plastered! No more tequila for you Rick! When he pulled that stuff out, I knew there`d be problems. What a wild guy. We loved him. When we left him, he was sacked out on the floor."

"We didn`t even imagine that one day we could play outside of Los Angeles!"

"The fact that I`m from Indiana has no business being in my career."

"We have quite a few lawsuits already, but our attorney says you`re not a real band until you have at least a dozen of `em, so we have about eight more to go."

"I`m proud of the songs we managed to knock together. And what we did... Everything! We smoked everything, drank everything, ate everything! Yeah, everything! I won`t say more, we broke havok, and that was great, we were the walking revolution! Only one thing was happening, and we were this thing. I remember the gigs in England, the first time, it was complete hysteria!"

"Well, Axl and high school... He must have spent at least two days there! Yeah, I saw him briefly there."

"And me, as everybody knows, I used to be in the Bee Gees. Sorry, I always get confused, I meant Guns N` Roses!"

"Originally I don`t think Slash ever wanted to play with another guitarist. But we both really loved Aerosmith and the Stones and we just used that idea to make it all work. At some point he and I hooked up and we started making it work. It became fun, just working with another guy like him, opposites attrack, I suppose."

"That`s a tough one… music or sex? I`d say sex, if I gotta choose!"

"Duff got me inspired to start running. He ran a marathon! This is a guy I used to see in the hallways of hotels and wouldn`t recognise him, because he was so fucked up from alcohol - vodka, specifically. Here`s a guy who almost died from having something blow up inside him - I forget what it was, but it was something important! So he inspired me to take up running, and that`s a great escape for me."

"I hate to take showers! Guitarists don`t like showers `cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid."

"I have a phobia about being barefoot!"

"I`ve read that Alice Cooper created this thing that was Alice Cooper, so onstage he`s Alice Cooper, but if he`s going to buy a car, he`s Vincent Furnier - the other guy! Last year, I was thinking, "Man, that`s pretty clever, if you could sub-divide into two separate entities…" But… it`s me, you know?!"

"Music gave me something to do in my life."

"In Guns N` Roses, I would come up with an idea for a song and the first thing that would always happen was Slash getting hold of it and going chunka-chunka-chunka! I`d be going, `OK, it`s already changed a little bit.` Then Axl would come in and go, `We`ve gotta dd more lyrics, we`ve gotta have more vocals, more back-ups, let`s layer this`. So by the time it was finished it was like, `holy shit! What a monster!`"

"What`s more boring than a drum solo?"

"We take out our aggressions while we`re playing. It`s like therapy."

"We got a call sayin` Alice Cooper had like two weeks of support dates in the Midwest. We said, `Alice Cooper... Fuckin` A!` Hey, I grew up listening to y`know "Sick Things", "I Love the Dead". It was a lot better than fuckin` reality. So we did `em. Alice was cool. He`s still... Y`know... "Alice"."

"Y`now Motley Crue? Sick fuckin` guys, man! Real sick fucks, those guys!"

"[Duff] plays sort of like a rhythm bass sort of thing, y`know."

"Slash was born in Stock... Uh, Stoke-on-Trent, when he was just a little kid, you know what I`m sayin`."

"[Axl] can still be a tyrant, but then he can turn around and be the nicest guy in the world."

"[Axl]`s completely crazy... Without the other four of us around, I wouldn`t even want to imagine what the fuck would go on in his head. Or his life."

"Axl wants to do stuff his way, at his pace, in his time."

"Axl was like a serious lunatic when I met him. He was just really bent on fighting and destroying things. Somebody`d look at him wrong and he`d just like start a fight."

"[Axl]`s a great rock singer. How can I get anybody that`s gonna top that?"