I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.

I Want To Ride My Bicycle I Want To Ride My Bike I Want To Ride My bicycle I Want To Ride It Where I Like

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

Was that you or the duck?

I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.

When I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.'

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].