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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.

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.

When We Weren't Being Transcendent We Specialized In Self-inflicted Disaster.

What Does Surprise Me, Though, Is The Amount Of Attention This Band [guns'n'roses] Has Garnered 11 Years After The Original Lineup Broke Up. That's An Interesting Phenomenon. It Was Even Interesting Back In The Day. I Mean, [we Were] This Glorified Garage Band. It Was A Great Band, But It Was Not The Kind Of Band You Expected To Become What It Has.

You Can't Wait Around For Destiny To Give You What You Think You Deserve, You Have To Earn It, Even If You Think You've Paid Your Dues.