Slash Details The Creation of New Album 'World on Fire'

It's encouraging that Slash, one of the most iconic living rock gods, has a guitar within reach at all times in case his muses show up. He's moved to write constantly while he's on the road, and the fact that there's an instrument waiting for him pretty much, well, everywhere totally helps when an idea hits him and he needs to work out a chord or lyric right away.

"I always have a guitar with me when I'm on the road," he told Fuse in this exclusive interview. "In the dressing room, on the bus or in my hotel rooms, I'm usually playing guitar. I record into my phone; it's the quickest way to do it. Whenever I have a good idea, I just log it. When the tour's over, I go back and listen to everything. A lot of these ideas I've retained anyway, but I go back and see what I like. If there's any gems on there ... I fine-tune the songs and rehearse them until we know them well enough to go into the studio and be able to bang them out really quickly."