I believe the "Prostitute" portion refers to Axl not wanting to prostitute himself to the music industry, just to crank out another album (i.e. Chinese Democracy). I imagine he's been under significant pressure from both execs and loved ones to release the album over the past 16 years, but felt he'd just be prostituting himself for "fortune", while living with the "shame" of releasing art he didn't feel was ready to be released...
That was my gut feeling when I heard it the first couple times.
I believe the "Prostitute" portion refers to Axl not wanting to prostitute himself to the music industry, just to crank out another album (i.e. Chinese Democracy). I imagine he's been under significant pressure from both execs and loved ones to release the album over the past 16 years, but felt he'd just be prostituting himself for "fortune", while living with the "shame" of releasing art he didn't feel was ready to be released...
That was my gut feeling when I heard it the first couple times.