When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.

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.

Who can redeem us from our sins? ONLY the Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!

Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information.

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

I prefer to live in my own little bubble of my own reality.

Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear.

The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.

As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.

We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.

I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.