Love is not always bed of roses. When its unfulfilled, it causes immense pain and anger.

My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs.

I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.

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

My mother had a beautiful rose garden and would cut roses all summer and place in our house.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life.

I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform.

I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.

I just believe in giving people their roses while they're living. That's my new thing - period.

I personally think that a bouquet of white roses is simple, chic, and surprisingly long-lasting.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

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

Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day.

That is one thing about playing with Guns N' Roses and Metallica: everyone wants to interview you.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

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

We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.'

Children teach you to stop and smell the roses even though you're busier than you've ever been before.

With the Roses, I knew we were great; I felt that we would achieve something. On my own, I had no idea.

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

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

I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?

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

I want people to know that it's not always dandelions and roses when you're doing something like 'Aladdin.'

When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.

Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.

When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.

We want to give you the roses when you're dead. That's how human beings think. I try not to think like a human.

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

I've not thought about the Stone Roses since we quit. How many LPs do I have to make to stop people talking about it?

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

Decide who you are and what your goals entail - then go for the roses. Life has little regard for those who waste time.

I'm only really good at making music. I wasn't convinced when I started out, but then I heard the first Stone Roses' LP.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

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

Right after my mother died, my dad and I went into the studio and he recorded a song called 'I Found You Among the Roses.'

The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A.... push shuffle and anything will come on.

God has given His children a love that is so great in Christ that the world can't touch it with chocolates, roses, or diamonds.

When I was in Class VII, a boy from Class VI came to me with a bunch of roses and said, 'Didi, will you be my Valentine today?'

I can't pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I suppose, is roses. We've got masses.

'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack.

I'm solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That's what I believe.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

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.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain.

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