Freddie 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.
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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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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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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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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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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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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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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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I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.
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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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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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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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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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I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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