Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
AXL ROSELife sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
AXL ROSEAt 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.
AXL ROSEIn 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.
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 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 ROSEWhat’s so civil about war anyway?
AXL ROSEWe take it for granted we know the whole story – We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.
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 ROSEI don’t even know my own phone number.
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 ROSEFreddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.
AXL ROSEWhen 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.
AXL ROSEI 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.
AXL ROSEIt’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.
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.
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