Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose says that he doing well, and that he didn’t dodge the promotion of the Chinese Democracy album because he’s scared of people, but because he hates interviews.
He told Britain’s The Sun, "There will be proper interviews much later. Good idea or bad, we’ll see. I’m happy the record’s out, the rest, one nightmare at a time."
The album, which was released after 15 long years of waiting, placed third on the Billboard charts, with a disappointing sale of 261,000 copies the first week of release. Critics pin the album’s mediocre results on Rose’s refusal to promote the album.