Rose told Rolling Stone that he left school "'cause I couldn't make school work for me. I was having to read books, sing songs, draw pictures of things that didn't stimulate or excite me." Choosing to educate himself, Rose took up painting and drawing on his own, presumably finally focusing on subjects he found stimulating and exciting, and spending time at the local library, calling this "putting myself through Axl's school of subjects that I wanted to learn about."
Unfortunately, this also left plenty of time for Rose to "[get] in trouble for fun," to the point where he spent three months in jail. Eventually he left Indiana for California to be a rock star. Despite his lack of formal education, Rose advised "any high school kid" to take business classes: "I don't care what else your gonna do ... You can say 'Well, I don't want to get commercial,' but if you do anything to make any money, you're doing something commercial." Spoken like a true smart kid.
