Music gave me something to do in my life.

- Izzy Stradlin

We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it…

- Izzy Stradlin

I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid.

- Izzy Stradlin

Some of the best stuff can be written out of dire times

- Izzy Stradlin

There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door, going sixty-five miles an hour.

- Izzy Stradlin

The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.

- Izzy Stradlin