Axel Rose Quotes

"My favorite cartoon characters are Metallica and Slash."

"There was a time when we were way more glam. I had the hair and full makeup and everything."

"I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot."

"Aerosmith are a tradition that I grew up with. They were the only band that the people who lived in my city in Indiana would accept wearing make-up and dressed cool."

"In a world he did not create, he will go through it as if it were his own. Half man, half beast, I don't know what it is but it's weird and it's pissed off and calls itself Slash."


"I used to use the Internet a lot, but I got tired of reading all the garbage on there about me. The Internet is just a huge garbage can."

"At times I enjoy writing and at other times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel."

"I've really learned to control myself. It used to be that I would get mad, break everything in the room, smack somebody in the face and then leave. Now I work real hard at trying to keep things cool and together."

"I guess I like who I am now. I'd like to have a little more internal peace. I'm sure everybody would."

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

Famous Guitarists Who Named Their Guitar

B.B. King - Lucille: A black Gibson ES-355.

Edward Van Halen - Freankenstrat: Rebuilt stratocaster named after the Frankenstein monster, a creature made up from many different bodies.

George Harrison - Lucy: A Gibson Les Paul given to him by Eric Clapton.

Brian May - Red Special: Custom built, also called The Old Lady.


Eric Clapton - Blackie: Fender Stratocaster auctioned off in 2004 to raise money for his Crossroads addiction recovery center.

Billy Gibbons: 1959 Gibson Les Paul.

 Neil Young - Old Black: Gibson Les Paul.

Willie Nelson - Trigger: A Martin N-20 acoustic guitar.

Bo Diddley - Twang Machine: Custom built "cigar box" guitar. Later produced by Gretsch.

Prince - Cloud: Custom built guitar used during the Purple Rain era.

Keith Richards - Micawber: 1953 Fender Telecaster. Named after a character in Charles Dicken's David Copperfield.

Stevie Ray Vaughn - First Wife: 1963 Fender Stratocaster with a 1962 neck.

Tony Iommi - Monkey:  1965 Gibson SG.

Yngwie Malmsteen - Duck: 1971 Fender Stratocaster which had a Donald Duck sticker on it.

Belinda Carlisle quotes

"I didn't want to be the singer. I wanted to play bass."

"I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me."

"I'm not super, super, super successful and I don't want to be. I'm not a prisoner of my success."

"The eighties were a time of excess in a lot of ways."

"I'm really fed up with whole media thing where you have to be 20 years old, a size 0, and blond with plastic tits."


(About The Go-Go's) "It was a Cinderella story, we didn't even know how to play our own instruments."

(About Madonna) "I think she's a pioneer in her own way in terms of using her sexuality, individuality, in a very positive way, I think. She does a great job."

"I freaked out when I first went on my solo tour. I realized I was on stage without the girls."

"You can't stay up there forever. The peak of my career is over - that was back in the eighties and early nineties."