We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
AXL ROSENovember Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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I personally don’t do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I’d rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.
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I’d just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.
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I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.
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I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we’re coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.
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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.
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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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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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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn’t owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another’s, or in this case several others’, expense.
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If I hadn’t had Freddie Mercury’s lyrics to hold on to as a kid I don’t know where I would be. It taught me about all forms of music… it would open my mind. I never really had a bigger teacher in my whole life.
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When I was a kid, I was told rock n’ roll wasn’t music. It wasn’t art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong – and they meant everything to me.
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Many times drugs and alcohol – there’s a technical term that they’re called, emotional suppressants – are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.
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I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.
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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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