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#1. I was the one that allegedly "quit and joined my old band." That wasn't true. But it was said so matter-of-factly on the Internet that the guys weren't really sure what I was up to.

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#2. My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

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#3. GET YOURSELF TOGETHER DRINK TILL YOU DROP FORGET ABOUT TOMORROW AND HAVE ANOTHER SHOT

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#4. Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours

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#5. If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest.

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#6. I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more.

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#7. I've always had to do things my way; I play guitar my way; I've taken myself to the edges of life my way; I've gotten clean my way; And I'm still here. Whether or not I deserve to be is another story.

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#8. I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.

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#9. When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And even then, you know, Guns N' Roses has a nasty way of sticking around.

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#10. When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.

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#11. The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver.

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#12. A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.

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#13. I guess you could say there are two Slashes. There's the crazy, rock-and-roll Slash, he's wild. And then there's the real Slash- he collects miniature soaps and treats his hookers real nice.

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#14. That's always stuck with me, with music. I've never really gotten jaded about it. I've always loved music for the sake of doing it, and the longer I do it, the more I like it. Hopefully, I'll be able to have that same point of view in this business, or at least with doing this.

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#15. The era itself has nothing to do with anything. We weren't really attached to that at all. I just saw this thing where they had a Poison concert on VH1, and to me, that is being attached to an era.

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#16. And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

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#17. I was never into hanging out on the Sunset Strip. When it came to Guns N' Roses and the scene that was going on then, that was something we pretty much hated. That was what we had to scratch and claw through, and as soon as we got established enough to leave, we never went back.

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#18. You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.

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#19. I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

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#20. We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

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#21. Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different.

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#22. I do all my interviews on the toilet.

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#23. I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

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#24. It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.

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#25. I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.

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#26. I don't believe in having regrets.

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#27. People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.

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#28. Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.

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#29. Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.

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#30. There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.

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#31. I'm not overly greedy.

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#32. So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

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#33. As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

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#34. If I ever go bald, I'll kill myself.

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#35. When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

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#36. I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.

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#37. I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

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#38. Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems.

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#39. A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

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#40. That's one of the cool things about going to local bars: seeing what people are doing and jamming with them. I'm a huge advocate of jamming with others; you learn a lot. So I love to go and do that - even if people wipe the stage up with you..

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#41. I am married and I have two kids now, and I love them all to death. So I am trying to put all that together and maintain the same pace I've been keeping. But really, I relish what we do. A year and a half sounds like a cakewalk to me.

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#42. I allow myself one nice car.

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#43. I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

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#44. I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.

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#45. I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

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#46. I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.

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#47. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

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#48. It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.

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#49. Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out.

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#50. Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

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#51. But if I was still trying to be in Guns N' Roses while I wasn't in the band ... I wouldn't want to maintain an image like that.

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#52. One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.

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#53. [the best advice about women] was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing."

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#54. My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

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#55. For me, the original Guns N' Roses is the embodiment of a certain kind of chemistry that really couldn't be duplicated.

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#56. I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

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#57. I love playing music as much as if not more so than I did when I was 19; that compared to most of my peers is pretty surprising. I wake up every day and get really excited about doing stuff that I have been doing for the last 30 years. I just love it.

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#58. Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.

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#59. An anagram of Axl Rose is oral sex. Why do I know? Because when I'm not playing music I love solving erotic jumbles.

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#60. When I see footage of Guns N' Roses, I see that fu**ing hunger and attitude. You could not f**k with those five guys. It was just raw. It was this lean, hungry thing on its way up. It was as sincere as any rock 'n' roll that I've ever heard, and I'm proud of that.

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#61. And, so, when I picked up the guitar, suddenly, just playing a couple of notes really, really spoke to me. It was almost like I should have been doing it prior to that. You know, it was something that just felt really natural.

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#62. If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.

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#63. Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

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#64. Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

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#65. That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans.

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#66. If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.

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#67. Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.

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#68. My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.

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#69. The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.

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#70. I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

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