Slash Quotes

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

I'm somebody who doesn't believe in conforming to maybe whatever is on the radio.

We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!

Being a rocker, to me, is equal to living as much of the truth as possible.

Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.

I’m not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.

I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.

Now where I come from We don't let society Tell us how it's supposed to be Our clothes, our hair We don't care It's all about being there Everybody's going Uptown That's where I wanna be Uptown Set your mind free.

This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress.

It's basically against the whole idea of what always made rock&roll music interesting to me. I thought it was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expressions of rebellion. It was one channel you could take without havin' to kiss ass, you know? And right now it just seems like they're on a big daisy chain, each kissin' each other's asses.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do.

When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.

It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.