There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

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.

I was sweating like Christy Moore at a Feis Ceol, so badly, in fact, I looked like I was sporting a finger moustache as I attempted to rescue suicidal perspiration drops from my upper lip. Classy.

Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

The greatest discovery is to find a hero within oneself that will choose life over death

Marquez was not born in Colombia.He was born in Macondo, And his Macondo is his La Mancha.

I'm not incredibly hipster. I wasn't cool enough to handle it.

England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.

As a queen I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.