Duff McKagan Quotes

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

I haven't had groupies. I had admirers, but not groupies. But I've always been, you know, courted into the friend zone.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.

I was so naive to think once you sign, it's all good, and you are a superstar.

My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of the day, when you go home and you go to bed, and if you're on your own, you never think of yourself in that way. I'm sure not even people like Angelina Jolie think like that.

My dream was never to become this unattainable star.

I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.

Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I really loved working on 'Laguna Beach,' and I'd do it all over again. I'm one of the luckiest kids in the world, but I thought it was going to be a documentary about kids in high school, and they exaggerated all this drama. When it came out, it was this weird thing. People feel that they know you.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a lot of sides of humanity that the average person is never going to see. And those can often be pretty disheartening, and it can make somebody pretty lonely.

I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.

Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.

Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.