I have a few personal ambitions for the band.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

Live Aid turned our world upside down.

Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

Four personalities are bound to clash.

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.

I have a few personal ambitions for the band.

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.

The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.

No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.

I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.

In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know.

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.

I wouldn't do go to another band.

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

I strongly believe that you can't win in the marketplace unless you win first in the workplace. If you don't have a winning culture inside, it's hard to compete in the very tough world outside.

I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self love.

Humility is to make a right estimate of ones self.

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

I love writing.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

Grandmothers and grandchildren have a lot in common. They are inclined to straggle behind on walks. They doze off at unexpected moments. They like fancy cakes. They are very fond of cats and know how to talk to them. They are given to falling over. They get the giggles.

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

The moment of twilight is simply beautiful.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated.