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Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.
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I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when we call forth those memories, we are essentially filling in the blanks. We're basically telling ourselves a story, but that story changes based on how old we are, and what mood we're in, and if we've seen photographs recently. We trust other people to tell us the story of our lives before we can remember it, and usually that's our parents and usually it works, but obviously not always. And everybody's interpretation is going to be different.
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A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.
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As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.
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Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.
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I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.
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I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.
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I think it takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in this world.
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I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.
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I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.
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People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.
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I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!
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I'm grateful for the road. It gets me in shape. I feel like I'm 25 years old after ther first or second week.
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When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.
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I ran into Axl [Rose] at a club some year ago and told him he's crazy, we all miss them, and he needs to get the band back together.
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The secret to enlightenment is to lighten up. Whether you are talking rock or women, all there.
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I realized when I was taking care of my problems that the band is all I really care about.
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But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.
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I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.
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I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.
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Steven and Joe just weren't around, they were locked away in their rooms consuming whatever they were consuming. We were still functioning. We still got up in the morning. So Tom, Joey, and I had a lot of time together.
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So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.
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I get the whole thing, I can't talk about it. But they're talking and they got an offer. I hope Axl[Rose] can see the greater picture and not be mad at Duff [McKagan] and Slash.
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The '70's came and went already.