“I’ve been hell on the women in my life, and the women in my life have been hell on me.”— Axl Rose, rollingstone.comTagged: Women, Hell
“It can bother me. But the racist thing is just bullshit. I used a word that was taboo. And I used that word because it was taboo. I was pissed off about some black people that were trying to rob me. I wanted to insult those particular black people. I didn’t want to support racism. When I used the wo…”— Axl Rose, rollingstone.comTagged: racism, Homophobia, faggot, nigger, black thing
“There’s a certain pride in knowing that you achieved what you came to do.”— Axl Rose, rollingstone.comTagged: Pride, Goals, Achievement
“We’d been told we’re the perfect house band for David Duke’s America. And it’s like, fuck David Duke, I don’t like being associated with that. I asked the crowd: 'Is that what you get out of this, that we’re racists and you’re supporting it? ‘Cause that’s not the case.' I asked: 'Is that all you’re…”— Axl Rose, rollingstone.comTagged: david duke, racism
“I pretty much follow my own internal clock, and I perform better later at night. Nothing seems to work out for me until later at night. And it is our show. I don’t want to make people sit around and wait—it drives me nuts. That hour-and-a-half or two-hour time period that I’m late going onstage is l…”— Axl Rose, rollingstone.comTagged: lateness, chronically late, Procrastination Is Bad
“Well, I think that the way the media covered it made me look completely responsible for it. I don’t think I was the last straw. I think that the people who decided to start throwing stuff were the last straw. We have a big problem with the people that were at that concert. We gave them a ninety-minu…”— Axl Rose, rollingstone.com
“My growth was stopped at two years old. And when they talk about Axl Rose being a screaming two-year-old, they're right. There's a screaming two-year-old who's real pissed off and hides and won't show himself that often, even to me. Because I couldn't protect him. And the world didn't protect him.”— Axl Rose, rollingstone.comTagged: Growth, Developmental Psychology, tantrum, infant
“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. You can…”— Axl Rose, rollingstone.comTagged: Advice, How To Succeed As An Artist, Everything is Commercial, Life Under Capitalism, Axl Rose