I don't like being told what I can and what I can't say. I used words like police and niggers because you're not allowed to use the word 'nigger.' Why can black people go up to each other and say, 'Nigger,' but when a white guy does it all of a sudden it's a big putdown? I don't like boundaries of any kind.

In a 1989 Rolling Stone interview, Rose explained the lyrics: Critic Jon Pareles noted that 'with 'One in a Million' on G 'n' R Lies, the band tailored its image to appeal to white, heterosexual, nativist prejudices, denouncing blacks, immigrants and gays while coyly apologizing 'to those who may take offense' in the album notes.' Getting really far away from all my friends and family in Indiana.' Controversy Īccusations of homophobia, nativism and racism were levelled against singer and lyricist Axl Rose. 'Cos he couldn't believe I would write that… The chorus came about because I was getting, like, really far away like ' Rocket Man (song)', Elton John… Like in my head. And it stuck with me… When I said 'Police and niggers/that's right,' that was to fuck with (band associate) Wes (Arkeen)'s head.

'I was picturing trying to call me if, like, I disappeared or died… The chorus – 'You're one in a million' – someone said that to me once, real sarcastically. Where in all the Worlds of all the Universes, will I ever be able to find One like You? I had to ask, but it is just a rhetorical question, because You are the reason that God made it All.'I came up with 'We tried to reach you but you were much too high,'' Rose told Mick Wall. Oh Great And Perfect Love! Oh My Love! Oh My Joy! Oh My Peace! Oh My Greatness. Yes the greatest love of all, You My Heaven, who is my living paradise, and allow me to create, and name every aspect of my love. Yes the One Song in my heart, who makes up the chorus of the Universe, who gives the Holy Angels something to sing about. Yes The Love Of My Eternity Past, who is now uniting with me physically in this material Earth. For You My Sweetheart, Are The Love Of My Heart. But never, can a million Human Beings be compared to You, or be at Your Level.

So One In A Million? Maybe One in a Million Universes, maybe One in a million Heavens, and maybe One in a million Earths. My One and only Unforgettable Tune, and my passion for a thousand lifetimes. Yes, a Perfect One such as You is my Gift Of Immortality. Yes One who is the very true Image Of God.

Yes One In A Million who is the needle under a thousand haystacks.

You are my one in a million