"We will burn that bridge when we come to it."

"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."

"Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them."

"It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself."

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

"The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active."

"To rule is easy, to govern difficult."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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 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 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 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."

"Mantovani was a great influence on me."

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

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

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

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