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’.
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.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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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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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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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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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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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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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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People can do whatever they want to, but I’m more pro-hetero. I’m not knocking it – I have friends that are gay. It’s just that it’s not my cup of tea, l guess. That’s all. People can do what they want.
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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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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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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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I don’t even know my own phone number.
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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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Regarding social media, I really dont understand what appears to be the general populations lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent… but hey its them, not me, so whatever.
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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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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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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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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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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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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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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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I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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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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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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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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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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