I Knew Slash In High School, But

People Don't Realize It, But No One Lives That Rock And Roll Life 24-7. They Think It's Hundreds Of Bottles Of Champagne Flowing And Private Jets And Money. But There's A Lot Of Time When You're Traveling - Time To Think, Time To Be Lonely. Sometimes It Gets To You.

I Was An Actor When I Was A Teenager And It Could Have Been The Direction That I Headed In. But Music And My Relationship With Music Is Quite Deep, And It Really Is The Nucleus Of My Creativity. So I Gave Up Acting So I Could Pursue Music Fully, And I Never Thought About Really Going Back. And Then [director] Lee Daniels Met Me And Wanted To Work With Me, And That's How It Started.

There Are So Many People That Don't Believe In Themselves And Don't Have Faith.

Mothers Love You To The End, And She Didn't Want To Hold Me Back From My Livelihood. So I Left For A Month And Called Her Every Couple Of Days. I Came Home And She Died 24 Hours Later.

That's A Big Gift When People Say To You That A Song Helped Them Or Brought Them To Some Place In Their Life Where They Needed To Be.