Mantovani was a great influence on me.

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.

And what’s your unhappiness due to, Harry?The words came out before he had time to think. “Loving someone who loves me.

What does he expect from a law student? I'm hard-wired to find loopholes.

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

I think I average one good sulk a week.

Tomorrow is a new beginning. Embrace the light of a new day, for you have a fresh chance to begin again, to make life beautiful.

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests.