“Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.”
“I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...”
“All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a judgment on someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge anything. That's the lesson I've learned”
“I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.”
“I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.”
“Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.”
“I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.”
“I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.”
“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.”
“I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.”
“I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.”
“The day is done. I'm having fun. I think I'm dumb. Or maybe just happy.”
“People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio”
“Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.”
“My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.”
“Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs.”
“Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.”
“John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.”
“People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.”
“all i want...is mac and cheese”
“Here we are now, entertain us.”
“I’m worse at what I do best.”
“I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.”
“I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.”
“Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.”
