W Axl Rose Quotes & Sayings

I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it. — Axl Rose

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

Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio, and I kind of sang with it, and I got smacked In the mouth because that song was "evil." — Axl Rose

And on the second OOOOOOOO, you picture just a naked glowing green skull that hangs there vibrating gape-mouthed in a prison cell. Or whatever it is you picture. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear. — Axl Rose

Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again. — Axl Rose

'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don't know if that was the best thing for Guns. — Axl Rose

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

I don't even know my own phone number. — Axl Rose

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 Rose

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

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. — Axl Rose

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. — Axl Rose

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. — Axl Rose

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. — Axl Rose

If I hadn't had Freddie Mercury's lyrics to hold on to as a kid I don't know where I would be. It taught me about all forms of music ... it would open my mind. I never really had a bigger teacher in my whole life. — Axl Rose

Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance! — Davy Jones

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. — Axl Rose

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. — Axl Rose

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. — Axl Rose

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived. — Axl Rose

Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems. — Slash

What's so civil about war anyway? — Axl Rose

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

There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much. — Britt Daniel

Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers. — Ian Astbury

Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent ... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever. — Axl Rose

I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show. — Axl Rose

Axl Rose is the ear-cutting scene from Reservoir Dogs in human form. — Chuck Klosterman

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. — Axl Rose