I'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me.

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.

The secret of all the great men and women in history is that they converted their time into tangible products.

Regret is a painful thing. Few people understand that there are three important things that leave us and can never return. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back.

In the long run most short cuts are flawed - especially on journeys to 'so-called' success

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.

Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.

[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.

The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.

It's a war out there and either they're going to hurt you or you're going to hurt them. I just go out there and play with my heart.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.