I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.
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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We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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I don’t even know my own phone number.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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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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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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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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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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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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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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