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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.

Axl Rose

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
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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Hard Maintain People Person Relationship
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
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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Enjoyment Experience Feeling Hate Myself Time Writing
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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Gold Myself Side Writing
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.
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Experience Honor Money Myself Recognition Respect Try
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 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
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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Idol Influence Life Myself
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 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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Discover Greatness Myself Pieces Scream Touch
I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.
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Privacy Reality Yourself
November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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Deal Love Rain State
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’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

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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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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