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.

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

It's like being with the Stones and Beatles.

As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.

The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver.

But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.