Axl Rose: “I’m a %$@# Hoosier rocker, too!”
“He was angry and hurt that his home state had not embraced him,” says IU rock professor Glenn Gass.
“It’s odd—I’m someone who is not very gregarious, doesn’t crave attention, doesn’t talk much and am not that good at it. And yet for the longest single period in my life of doing one thing, that’s exactly what’s been required of me. That’s why I’m often told I seem cranky on-camera.”