Slash Quotes

"In Guns N` Roses, I would come up with an idea for a song and the first thing that would always happen was Slash getting hold of it and going chunka-chunka-chunka! I`d be going, `OK, it`s already changed a little bit.` Then Axl would come in and go, `We`ve gotta dd more lyrics, we`ve gotta have more vocals, more back-ups, let`s layer this`. So by the time it was finished it was like, `holy shit! What a monster!`"

"Originally I don`t think Slash ever wanted to play with another guitarist. But we both really loved Aerosmith and the Stones and we just used that idea to make it all work. At some point he and I hooked up and we started making it work. It became fun, just working with another guy like him, opposites attrack, I suppose."

(on writing his memoir, "Slash") The only reason I wrote it is because a lot of the stuff I was reading and seeing about the band got pretty frustrating. I just had to straighten out some shit.

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.

Slash sat me down at his house and said, You`ve got to clean up your act. You know you`ve gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you`ve got to get into rehab.

One of my fondest memories is when Slash, from Guns N` Roses, sat me down at his house and said, `You`ve got to clean up your act.` You know you`ve gone too far when Slash is saying, `Look, you`ve got to get into rehab, you have to shut it down. You`re going to die.` He`s a terrific guy and I love him, he`s a buddy of mine, but I had to step back from that situation and go, `Yeah, but you`re Slash. Whaddya mean?` We`d been up for about four days. But I still heard him because a part of me was saying, `This isn`t as much fun as I thought it was going to be. Something`s missing.`

God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He`s so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he`s on the news. What a monkey.

People listen to me because I can put together stories and rhymes. I`m no guitarist like Slash.

Few people realize that Bush could slash any program in federal government with the approval of a simple majority in the Senate and the House.

It was a tragedy to begin with, ... But now we have a homicide-slash-attempted suicide.

The instrumentation was a little different. A little more experimental this time. We had saxophone and trumpet and strings and piano. The other two (albums) I`ve done are more straight-up singer/songwriter. The others were real story songs and these were more poetic-slash-story songs.

Jimmy Smith . He`s my all-time favorite. When the Oilers-slash-Titans drafted me I was told the reason I was brought in was to cover a guy like Jimmy Smith. I remember the first time looking at the film of him, and he was unbelievable. Then, my first time playing against him, he was better than the film. He`s just the ultimate competitor. He hasn`t lost a step and he`s a great receiver. I have the utmost respect for him.