Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

I don’t like to be bored.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

I don’t like the intellectual label.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

Fashion is merely an opinion. And I’ve got a lot of opinions.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they’re going to tell you I’ve been DJ Khaled my whole life.

I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

In 2013, the week before I dropped ‚Crenshaw,‘ ‚Complex‘ wrote an article that said that Nipsey Hussle is one of the top 25 underperforming artists. I was so offended that I responded with my own opinion about these journalists – their point of view is not validated in our culture.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Songwriters, you have to work – you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song’s going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Whatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you’re not going to get played on radio, and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

Writing bores me so.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

Knowledge is true opinion.

There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.