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What’s so civil about war anyway?
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
Axl Rose is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems.
Slash Guns N' Roses
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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.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
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.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
I mean, the thing about Guns N' Roses was that it wasn't trying to attach itself to the '80s, or anything that had to do with the '80s. It's just who we were at that time. We were doing what we wanted to do. That had really nothing to do with anything around us, except for the simple fact that we were rebelling against that stuff.
Slash Guns N' Roses -
People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.
Slash Guns N' Roses -
If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, 'cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
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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.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.
Slash Guns N' Roses -
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.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.
Slash Guns N' Roses
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It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.
Slash Guns N' Roses -
I guess I like who I am now. I'd just like to have a little more internal peace. I'm sure everybody would.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
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.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
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."
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
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.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
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A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.
Slash Guns N' Roses -
When you're in a band, it's a close-knit thing. There's a lot of emotional stuff.
Duff McKagan Guns N' Roses -
No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm.
Slash Guns N' Roses -
If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.
Slash Guns N' Roses