17 Quotes by Mick Mars

I question a lot of things and form my own opinions. They're just as valid as a rocket scientist's or anyone else's. Who says you have to believe something because you read it in a book or saw pictures? Who is it that gets to say "That's the way that it is"? When everybody believes the same thing, they become robotic. People have a brain; they can figure out things for themselves.

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

Musicians today have gotten used to Protools, which I hate. You can go into the studio and not even be a musician, just start beating on stuff and they can take parts out of it, move it around and then you can sound like Slash. If you want some kind of weird feedback effect in the middle of a guitar solo, now they can just fly it in. You don't have to sit there and work at it like you did back in the day.

If I had to take off all the make-up and shave my head and wear only a jockstrap; I'd still be playing the same music.

There is a new album in the works, but we're taking our time on it,

We're all getting along better than ever, ... It's like night and day. We all get along extremely well. It's just all really positive and really good.