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" We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was. "

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" 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. "

" 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 still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more. "

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

" 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. "

" My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan. "

" I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do. "

" 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. "

" 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'm not overly greedy. "

" Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence. "

" You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night. "

" My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters. "

" As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion. "

" I don't believe in having regrets. "

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

" I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since. "

" 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. "

" I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage. "

" Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life. "

" And, so, when I picked up the guitar, suddenly, just playing a couple of notes really, really spoke to me. It was almost like I should have been doing it prior to that. You know, it was something that just felt really natural. "

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