In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

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.

One can be kind, one can be helpful, but it takes a heart and an effort to understand.

Perhaps it is a good thing that we don't live long enough to realize how redundant things seem :)

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.

I want to make sure my family's straight.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.

Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero.

... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.