 Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever. |
| I was never shut down by the drugs; that was my problem. Cocaine was an aphrodisiac. I think that was a bit of a curse. |
| I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible. |
| I try to be known more for my work than for anything else. |
| I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age. |
| As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? |
| Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting. |
| Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't? |
| Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab. |
| What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money. |
| I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation. |
| The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it. |
| I've always been pretty old-fashioned. I'm kind of a missionary guy. |
| Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course. |
| That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. |
| I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point. |
| Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business. |
| There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past. |
| When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars. |
| Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. |
