"Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways."

"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity..."

"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely not happen."

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."

"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience."

"Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting."

"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."

"The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it."

"In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures."

"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."

"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists."

"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."

"Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see."

"I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you."

"I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis"

"My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player."

"I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards."

"A good video can make all the difference"

"To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had."

"I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music."

"Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh."

"I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway."

"There's nothing I'm embarrassed about"

"I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice."

"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."

"On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes."

"You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place."

"Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do"

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

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

"I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right."

"Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer"

"I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody"

"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."

"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."

"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 tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time."

"I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?"

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

"The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums."

"Mantovani was a great influence on me."

"I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything."

"I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it."

"I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement."

"I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal."

"I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish."

"Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit."

"Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear."

"At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever."

"In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake."