“If somebody’s going to represent our music live, I’d like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.”

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

I see no end to the possibility and the potential of Adam Lambert. He’s a fabulous performer, and I think it would be very interesting to do something with him.

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don’t really have those in England yet.

It is everyone’s prerogative to retire. But it’s like giving up on life as far as I’m concerned.

Once a musician, always a musician.

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.

It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they’re important.

There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.

It’s amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that’s what you seem to have mastered. You’ve used silence to great advantage in the film. It’s brilliant.

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

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