125 Quotes by Slash

I’m not ridiculously wealthy, but I don’t squander money either.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.