One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.

I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

If it's planned, it's boring

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

It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.

I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?