Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan has been transformed from a drug-addled musician barely capable of stringing two sentences together to a literate, insightful, and successful book author. Here in the follow-up to his memoir, It's So Easy (and other lies), he offers up life lessons a la rock and roll. He talks about:

• Know Your Tunes (and his favorite albums, such as the first Bad Company record, Paranoid and Nevermind)
• Skip the Stripclub, Hit the Bookstore
• Get a Dog
• Set Goals (and Boundaries)