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

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.

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.

Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them.

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.

The FA Cup is still domestically the best cup in the world.

There is no more final end than death

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.

I had amazing midwives when I first became a teen-aged mom, and each of the five times I gave birth.

The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

You want everything to go right. You've just got to let yourself be free and have good energy.