I really liked the Seattle movement. — Axl Rose

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

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. — Axl Rose

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

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. — Axl Rose

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

I wasn’t looking at it like, ‘I’m singing for AC/DC.’ I was looking at it like, ‘Y’know, if I can, and if they think I’m able to do it.’ — Axl Rose

I don’t even know my own phone number. — 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

I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you–even when they like you. — Axl Rose

I’m glad to be here [in Israel] again. — Axl Rose

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. — Axl Rose

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

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

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

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.’ — 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

A lot of the ‘Back In Black’ stuff is really challenging. — Axl Rose

I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip–hop. — Axl Rose

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

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

There was a much more self–destructive nature in ‘Appetite.’ It was a going–for–it–at–all–cost thing that worked then. — Axl Rose

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

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. — Axl Rose

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

Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone! — 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

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 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

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. — Axl Rose

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

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. — Axl Rose

Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way. — Axl Rose

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. — Axl Rose

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