Quotes from 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.

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

I don't really know what to say about Izzy. It's like you could have a conversation and think it's one way, and the next day, it's another way. And I'm not trying to take any shots at Izzy. It's just his thing is kind of his thing, whatever that is.

A lot of the 'Back In Black' stuff is really challenging.

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

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

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.

The Guns N' Roses reunion didn't happen by chance or whatever. It was always looked at as a possibility, but it never seemed right or felt right.

Slash and I hadn't talked in 19 years, and when we did talk, I was like, 'You wrote a lot of stuff that didn't even happen. It's not real.'

Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.

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

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.

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.

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.

I mainly listen to the music that's playing during movies. It can be the theme to 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' 'The Equalizer,' stuff like that. I like the blend of orchestra with modern instrumentation. It's something that I've wanted to do.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

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 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.

What I'd tell any kid in high school is, 'Take business classes.' I don't care what else you're gonna do; if you're gonna do art or anything, take business classes. You can say, 'Well, I don't want to get commercial,' but if you do anything to make any money, you're doing something commercial.

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

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