The thing is that business and success, and how hard it is, doesn't look any different whether you're playing a gig at eleven o'clock at night or you're going to work at nine in the morning at a law firm.
Guns N' Roses is a weighty subject, but in the same breath, I don't take it that seriously.
I'm not Cormac McCarthy, but I can get my point across in a thousand words.
One of the first 45s I ever bought was the Stooges' 'I Got a Right.' Probably one of my favorite singles, ever.
If you don't have a good rhythm section, your band is toast; you're a bar band. Good rhythm section, you've got a chance to get out of the bar.
I read Slash's book because we were on the road together with Velvet Revolver when that came out.