It's Not So Much About How Good

Being A Rockstar Is The Intersection Of Who You Are And Who You Want To Be.

I Love Playing Music As Much As If Not More So Than I Did When I Was 19; That Compared To Most Of My Peers Is Pretty Surprising. I Wake Up Every Day And Get Really Excited About Doing Stuff That I Have Been Doing For The Last 30 Years. I Just Love It.

I Was Never Into Hanging Out On The Sunset Strip. When It Came To Guns N' Roses And The Scene That Was Going On Then, That Was Something We Pretty Much Hated. That Was What We Had To Scratch And Claw Through, And As Soon As We Got Established Enough To Leave, We Never Went Back.

Experiencing Yourself Out Of Context, Divorced From Your Usual Point Of View, Skews Your Perspective – It’s Like Hearing Your Voice On An Answering Machine. It’s Almost Like Meeting A Stranger; Or Discovering A Talent You Never Knew You Had.

Notes And Chords Have Become My Second Language And, More Often Than Not, That Vocabulary Expresses What I Feel When Language Fails Me.