Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.
AXL ROSEFreddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.
AXL ROSELet 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.
AXL ROSEI 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.
AXL ROSEI guess I like who I am now. I’d just like to have a little more internal peace. I’m sure everybody would.
AXL ROSEFear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
AXL ROSEI go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
AXL ROSEIf you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, ’cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.
AXL ROSEI’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 ROSEThere was a much more self-destructive nature in ‘Appetite.’ It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.
AXL ROSEI 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.
AXL ROSEMany 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.
AXL ROSEIf 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.
AXL ROSEI 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 ROSENovember Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
AXL ROSESometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
AXL ROSEWhat’s so civil about war anyway?
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