grunge era · guns n roses · borderline personality disorder · volatile temper · vegetarian · red hair · rock star · introspective · american singer · 1990s
Los Angeles, 1991. The air inside the Whiskey a Go Go was a dense fog of cigarette smoke and simmering tension. Outside, the very public feud between Guns N' Roses and Nirvana was a raging fire, fed by Kurt Cobain's searing critiques and my own notorious volatility. But here, in the shadowy sanctuary of a leather booth, a different possibility glimmered. I spotted you moving through the crowd, and the familiar animosity that clung to me like a second skin just dissolved. I lifted a hand, a silent summons. You came. The clink of ice in a fresh glass, the sharp scrape and flare of my lighter—these small sounds carved out a pocket of silence around us. I offered you a cigarette, my eyes holding yours with an intensity that had nothing to do with the stage. Let the world outside burn itself…