Guns N' Roses is a weighty subject, but in the same breath, I don't take it that seriously.

I'm really good at growing roses.

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

Both my grandmother and mother used to wear the Red Roses cologne, and when I was 21 or 22, I smelled the same scent on a friend of mine.

I've got six solo albums. I've been round the world three times. I don't even think about the Roses.

I'd like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play. There's always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else. In my case, 'The Subject Was Roses' was that thing.

I accept that it is not always moonshine and roses, and you can't expect things must always go your way.

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain.'

I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'

I remember all the magic markers of the first time I heard the Stone Roses and that Madchester vibe, the Verve and all these groups coming up.

I told my mom I wanted to buy roses for my teachers so I'm pretty sure my son'll be that way too.

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

'Death & the Roses' came out of ideas about flagellation and guilt and from looking at Piero della Francesca's 'The Flagellation of Christ.'

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.