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

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 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.

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

I will rather walk alone in the light than to live in the dark.

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or on tour.

America's going to come back, and for that to happen, we're going to have to have a president who can work across the aisle.

Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE.