Rose: "I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you."

Rose: "I think that the problem starts when you start thinking that you're different from anybody else on the f*cking planet. Maybe a little different in what you do or how you go about doing it but I got a good feeling that you're probably a human."

Rose: "We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live."

Rose: "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."

Rose: "Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way."

Rose: "I think that it would be good for people to realize and understand that they are doing something to deal with their pain and they aren't really going to be allowed to escape it and outrun it forever without side effects and certain consequences, as far as emotional and mental happiness and their physical condition. And I'd like people to be aware of those things."

Rose: "Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!"

Rose: "I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it."

Rose: "Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear."

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."

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

Rose: "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."

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

Rose: "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."

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."

Rose: "I could beat my mic 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."

Rose: "We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.'"

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."

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."

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."