It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.

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.

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

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

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

Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again.

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.