He attacked Axl on every level. And my instinctual reaction wasn’t “you’re right,” it was “you can’t talk shit about Axl!” I can talk shit about Axl, I can talk shit about him all day if I want to—that’s because I had to deal with him for years. But neither Scott nor anyone else has that right.
Slash (on Velvet Revolver’s bandmate, Scott Weiland badmouthing Axl Rose)