We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

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.

Whatever you abuse will return to hunt you. Cultivate the self discipline to use everything within the environment God created them for.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

Stories are flight simulators for our brains.

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Gratitude is the miracle cure for every moment of dis-ease.

It doesn't matter what you've done, but what you're going to do the next game, and that's what I'm focused on.

People have been asking me for a couple of years when I am going to retire, and I think that now is the right time.

When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.