“My mother is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs – by the time I was about 17 – she started to believe in me, musically.”

I can’t believe that I’ve written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn’t bother releasing music anymore.

It’s the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say?

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

If someone really wants to hurt you, they’ll find a way whatever. I don’t want to live my life worrying about it.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

My music is some of the most honest music that’s been released and I think that’s why people buy it.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what’s important.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I’ve still got some work to do.

My mother pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn’t work out, I would have something to fall back on.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn’t expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.

Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.

This is a very fickle business. It’s really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.

I’m a perfectionist. It’s a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

All we have to see is that I don’t belong to you, and you don’t belong to me.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

If I do a film, I go to the place where it is based on, interact with people, and then, I believe, you pick up things without you even noticing.

Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey.

It’s not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it’s okay if education becomes a profitable business, it’s not okay if it becomes corrupt.