Axl Rose Quotes

We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.

I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.

Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.

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.

Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!

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'.

November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.

If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, 'cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.

I don't even know my own phone number.

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.

I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.

I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.

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.

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.

We have a saying in Guns N Roses: When somebodys gonna get yelled at, theyre gonna get the corn.

Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.

I'm glad to be here [in Israel] again.

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.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.

There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.