I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

Never dare to take someone else's life if you can't give it back.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.

Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need.

The Hamilton family was a bunch of hugging folks

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.

Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey.

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.