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Profession : Musician

Birth : July 23, 1965

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

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My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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I don't believe in having regrets.

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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.

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I allow myself one nice car.

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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.

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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.

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