"There's nothing I'm embarrassed about".""

"There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in."

"The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it."

"I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky."

"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast."

"Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect."

"The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else."

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

"For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil."

"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."

"I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition."

"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."

"From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band."

"Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children."

"There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair."

"Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions."

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

"I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good."

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

"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 was my weapon, my shield to hide behind."

"The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism."

"I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp."

"Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation."

"It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about."

"People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973."

"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."

"The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger."

"Paradise is always where love dwells."

"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards."

"Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger."

"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."

"We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection."

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."

"Anger wishes all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart"

"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's na"

"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."

"Age does not matter if the matter does not age."

"It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope"

"Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him."

"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."

"Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm."

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."

"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life."

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's"

"Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence."

"Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive"

"Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face"

"Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present"