Mick Mars Quotes
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I’m just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.
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It was bothering me a lot, and I became addicted to pain medication, which is like what dragged me down. When we first started talking about this thing, I was like pretty much out of it, but I wanted to do it. So I needed to get myself overhauled, cleaned up and everything else to do this, because I wanted to do it, you know?
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We're all getting along better than ever, ... It's like night and day. We all get along extremely well. It's just all really positive and really good.
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When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.
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When I get mean, I get mean.
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Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.
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Musicians today have gotten used to Protools, which I hate. You can go into the studio and not even be a musician, just start beating on stuff and they can take parts out of it, move it around and then you can sound like Slash. If you want some kind of weird feedback effect in the middle of a guitar solo, now they can just fly it in. You don't have to sit there and work at it like you did back in the day.
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There is a new album in the works, but we're taking our time on it.
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I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
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We didn't listen to critics, ... We did things with the fans and we did it our way. . . . That's what I'd like to be remembered by.
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We spend a lot of extra money that we don't have to, you know, for the fans, just so they can make it more of an experience than a concert.
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A lot of the songs that we're playing live we haven't played in like 20 years
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If I had to take off all the make-up and shave my head and wear only a jockstrap; I'd still be playing the same music.