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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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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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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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’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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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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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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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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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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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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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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