A biography for Duff McKaganhasn’t been written yet.
“'The Taking' is the closest thing to a 'concept' record that I have ever been involved with. Pain, loss, triumph, and redemption. Life. Bring it.”
“I do love the term 'rocker.' The word itself imbues a ton of imagery and romance. But I don't think a rocker needs to have AC/DC and Metallica and the Black Keys rumbling through their car speakers speeding headlong into the night.”
“I've been very fortunate. But rich? People make huge assumptions about the guys in Gn'R.”
“Being from a big band is great because you can do other bands.”
“I have a teenage daughter and a 10-year-old daughter. Things are pink and fluffy at my house, with two little dogs. It's pretty funny to be me now. And I'm in on the joke that is my life.”
“Music was going to be my thing. Was I going to make a living at it? That was kind of a joke. It was just my passion, and if I was broke doing my passion, so be it.”
“I read Slash's book because we were on the road together with Velvet Revolver when that came out.”
“I learned, by the time I was twenty, I'm not gonna die from a panic attack; you feel like you're going to.”
“I have a wife and two kids.”
“Playing with Iggy pulled me back in for a while and reminded me of what I love about music.”
“Guns N' Roses is a weighty subject, but in the same breath, I don't take it that seriously.”
“You turn road-gay on the road. After about 10 days, the fellas in your band start looking really good.”
“When you're in a band, it's a close-knit thing. There's a lot of emotional stuff.”
“It's a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it's not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.”
“Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go.”
“In rock n' roll, we don't sell records at all like we used to. Yet the artist still has to pay to make records. So you've just got to get out on tour and be smarter about your merchandising.”
“I have always been a huge sports fan, but more of the pedestrian and 'homer' sort.”
“I didn't start off as a bass player, and Guns was the first band I really, like, 'Oh, I'm gonna be a bass player. This is what I'm gonna do.' And I really dove into it head first.”
“I've had a panic disorder since I was sixteen, and they always said that's a subset of depression. And I'm like, 'I don't have depression.'”
“You know what's a great song that will be stuck in your head if I say it? 'Single Ladies,' by Beyonce. Killer song.”