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I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.

Axl Rose

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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Judgement Line Reading Story
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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Alcohol Deal Drugs Myself Pain Person Survive Time
I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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Car Friendship Movie Myself Show
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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Myself Peace Present
I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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Different Music Myself Sing Voice
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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Greatness Hold Myself Wait
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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Intention Life Live Myself Respect
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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Compete Invention Level Myself Vocal Writing
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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Destruction Myself Nature Work
Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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Blame Feeling Stay
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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Art Children Evidence Music Myself People Wrong
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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Dogs Kill Myself Personal Problem Small
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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Art Explanation Feeling Performance Responsibility Work
Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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Friendship Love Time Yourself
Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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Deep Fear Love Wisdom
I don’t even know my own phone number.
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Myself Number Phone

I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.

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