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I guess I like who I am now. I’d just like to have a little more internal peace. I’m sure everybody would.

Axl Rose

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
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
We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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Fear Ideal Live Love Oneself
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
Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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Blame Feeling Stay
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
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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Deep Drugs Emotional Hard Issues Myself Person Personal Way
I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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Crowd Different Feeling Myself Thinking
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
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
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
What’s so civil about war anyway?
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Civil One Liner War
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 don’t even know my own phone number.
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Myself Number Phone
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
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
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
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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Divorce Dogs End Happiness Myself People Sleep
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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Hold Life Lyrics Mindset Music Myself Open Teacher
If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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Blind Love Myself
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 go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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Car Friendship Movie Myself Show
Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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Beautiful Kind Life Way
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
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

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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