“I don't know where I'm rated. I don't pay attention to that. I'm reall...” — Duff McKagan Quote

I don't know where I'm rated. I don't pay attention to that. I'm really so just all into my craft. It's not a contest. I try to play the best.

I'm not Cormac McCarthy, but I can get my point across in a thousand words.

It's funny: when I started playing bass in 1984, you had guys like Paul Simonon fron the Clash, John Paul Jones, Lemmy, and Nikki Sixx was the head guy in Motley Crue, and you had all this post-punk stuff like Magazine and Killing Joke where the bass sort of lead the way. Not that I picked it to sort of be a main dude, but it intrigued me.

'The Joshua Tree' was the soundtrack of my life when we were making 'Appetite.'

Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid.

You bring a car out, you're going to win any dunk contest.

We're surrounded by violence, and we see so much of it on TV, especially the news programs. We almost become numb. And that forces filmmakers to try to outdo themselves... They say, 'Look what I can do,' and it becomes like a showoff thing. To me, that's ridiculous. Filmmaking isn't a contest!

It's a fast-paced game. Stuff happens. Guys jump in the air and guys can contest shots. Sometimes the play unfolds, and you fall down.