Directing Is Like Guitar Playing. That's A

I Don't Physically Put Appetite For Destruction In And Listen To It, But I Hear It On The Radio Or At Sporting Events Or Wherever Else It Pops Up, And It's Great. I Dig Everything About It. When I Hear Appetite, It Sounds Like Exactly What It Was. It Sounds Like A Record Made By An Angry Bunch Of Kids.

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.

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

People Want You To Produce Records. They Don't Care What It Took To Make It. When A Band Is Out Doing Concerts, The Fans Don't Want To Know About Equipment Difficulties. They Want Their Hour-and-a-half Release, And That's It.

When I Was A Kid, A Lot Of My Parents' Friends Were In The Music Business. In The Late '60s And Early '70s - All The Way Through The '70s, Actually - A Lot Of The Bands That Were Around Had Kids At A Very Young Age. So They Were All Working On That Concept Way Early On. And I Figured If They Can Do It, I Could Do It, Too.