Quotes from Slash

My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

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.

Being a rockstar is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be.

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.

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.

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

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

I allow myself one nice car.

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.

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.

I'm not overly greedy.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.