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’.
AXL ROSEI like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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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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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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In general I usually don’t really go by or live my life by a clock and outside of touring I don’t really ask anyone else to. It’s not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.
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There was a much more self-destructive nature in ‘Appetite.’ It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.
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We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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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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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 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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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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Regarding social media, I really dont understand what appears to be the general populations lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent… but hey its them, not me, so whatever.
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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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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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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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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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I don’t even know my own phone number.
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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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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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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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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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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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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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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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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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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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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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