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

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.

Universe responds to the person who meditates daily.

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

Temporize not! It is always injurious.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

Let me tell you, we're still the best country on earth and we're going to take care of our people and we're going to protect this country and the people here.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.

I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.