Axl Rose Quotes
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I'm late to everything. I've always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour late and says on the side, like in gold, 'Sorry I'm Late'.
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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.
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I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.
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We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.
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At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.
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My growth was stopped at two years old. And when they talk about Axl Rose being a screaming two-year-old, they're right. There's a screaming two-year-old who's real pissed off and hides and won't show himself that often, even to me. Because I couldn't protect him. And the world didn't protect him.
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If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, 'cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.
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I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.
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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.
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I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.
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I think that it would be good for people to realize and understand that they are doing something to deal with their pain and they aren't really going to be allowed to escape it and outrun it forever without side effects and certain consequences, as far as emotional and mental happiness and their physical condition. And I'd like people to be aware of those things.
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Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever.
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I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.
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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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I'm glad to be here in Israel again.
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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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People can do whatever they want to, but I'm more pro-hetero. I'm not knocking it - I have friends that are gay. It's just that it's not my cup of tea, l guess. That's all. People can do what they want.
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I guess I like who I am now. I'd just like to have a little more internal peace. I'm sure everybody would.
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Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio, and I kind of sang with it, and I got smacked In the mouth because that song was "evil."
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I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.