There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.

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.

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

The only Christian work is good work, well done

I've been a workaholic since I was 18.

I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.