I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear

When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.

What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.

Running is a simple sport. You don't need all the zoopy zoopy.

For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.

As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate.

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation.

The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.

If you pass the ball to Bill Cartwright, you'll never get the ball from me.

To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason

It isn't hard to be in a relationship because I've always loved to be in a relationship, and I love to be in love.