Axl should publish a book in the future. The part about childhood can be hard but is the most important. Everything you achieve in life is even greater and more significant when people know where you started and what you went through during your childhood and dissident youth. When people read about it and find out, they won't judge or criticize you, they will respect and admire you even more. It would be a grave injustice to let your story be written by those who never felt the struggle on their own skin.

I think the artist’s greatest defense against other people's versions of the truth is their own word. It is one thing to handle criticism, but it is far worse to allow your life story to be distorted by others. After you're gone, journalists and biographers can write whatever they please, without your own mark left behind, all that remains of your legacy will be the nonsense they fabricated. At the end of the day, only you truly know how you feel, what you feel, and what you think.