"Axl, lyrically, is brilliant in my eyes. Some shit that goes through his head is like, WHOA!" Duff
"In LA it's real hard to find a wife" Duff (1992)
"A lot of money would be like instant suicide. I'm scared of the responsibility of having a lot of money". Duff (1988)
"I must say that Axl has fucking balls" Duff ('90)
"In a lot of ways Axl's the most normal guy in the band". Duff
"We're not like God or anything"... Duff (1990)
"We are not the Berlin Wall coming down. We are not Communism falling. We are not fucking civil war in Yugoslavia. We are not the Gulf war. We are just a fucking rock 'n' roll band". Duff (July 1991)
"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!" Duff (1989)
"I'm down to Earth, a lover of music, making music and making love. I love to make people happy and I think I'm basically a good person ... despite what you might read about me."
"We're doing what we want to and pulling it off."
"I was 15 years old too. If you're dumb enough to think that we're setting examples for you, well.- never let Fear and the Germs set examples for me. It was fun. You look at it with humor and stuff. But you don't die like Darby Crash did. You don't do heroin and 'ludes and whatever he did to die."
"What sticks in the back of my head most of the time when I do interviews is why would anybody want to know about me and what ticks inside my head. I don't understand that because it's just a rock'n'roll band. We're just playing."
"I can't imagine myself doing anything else."
"We've been refused tours because of all the rumors. They don't want our band influencing other bands. It turns out, bands we've gone on tour with, as far as drugs and shit are concerned, are worse than us."
"Reporters always ask about the bad boy image. They also ask why we think we're doing so good. Well, there is no bad boy image! It's just us-five guys doing what we've always wanted to do and pulling it off. And I think the reason we're successful is because we are real and the kids know it. Y'know a good song to me is one you can listen to and imagine yourself playing and singing. That's real."
"When this band got together, everybody felt 'This is the right place.' You know how this goes. You're in a band and there's always a loose link in the end. Always. Every band I'd ever been in before, there'd always be one person, or two, that wasn't cutting it. This band, it was finally like 'Okay, this is it.' You could feel it at the first rehearsal. It just felt right."
"We knew people were getting turned off with all the stories that came out about us in the press even before our first record came out. Hell, I don't blame 'em. But we were very confident about the record we were about to make."
"I'm immediately embarrassed when that image thing comes up. A lot of bands go, 'Good, we got the bad boys title this week.' But with us, it's like we're just a rock'n'roll band. A lot of things go along with that and we take full advantage of it at times. We were never doing all that stuff before we were in the band, though. We didn't try to create any kind of image. It was created for us. Decadence was laid on this band."
“We are not the guardian angels of anybody. We only play authentic, nasty rock and roll.”
“I love making people happy and I think I'm basically a good person ...despite what you might read about me!”
“This album really has to make a statement. We've toured for 18 months. Now we have a brand name. Now we know each other as a band. The first album was just us together at home, a spontaneous product. Now it's time to make that record.”
“It's a tiny little club where people can hang from the rafters. It's gonna be hot and sweaty and ferocious, but that's rock and roll.”
“Hopefully we'll be in the studio in February or March. It would be nice to have something out by July.”
“I have always been influenced by country artists along my musical journey. Lately, I have been fortunate enough to be working with some of the great Nashville writers. I look forward to participating as a guest judge in a musical genre that is so close to my heart.”
ve played Albuquerque before. I was there with my college band Loaded; I think we played the Launchpad. We're doing an hour set for Ozzfest.”
“Sharon and Ozzy really like us; they asked us to play, ... Sharon is a sweet, sweet woman.”
“We'll figure it out; we'll keep to our own songs. (The ballad) `Fall To Pieces' goes over quite well; it's not completely alien, ... But it's Black Sabbath, man. I mean, if it was just Black Sabbath and us, it would be totally compatible.”
“Matt broke his pinkie water skiing; he's having surgery today, ... I mean, we're all kind of extreme guys. We like to do extreme things; it could've happened to any of us. We've been off four weeks; we're into jet skiing and motorbiking, things like that.”
“We got Brian Tiskay playing with us; he's Billy Idol's drummer, ... We're rehearsing right now so he can learn the songs. He's doing at least seven gigs with us.
“But we're not going to pressure Matt, make him come back before he's ready; we want the guy around for the next record, ... We'll just play it by ear. We'd do it for any of us.”
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