“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.

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

Once you understand what excellence is all about, you see how excellence manifest itself in any discipline.

Life is about the pursuit of excellence. That pursuit is probably more exciting to me now more than ever.

Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.

Once you understand what excellence is all about, you see how excellence manifests itself in any discipline.

Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer. Quotes

I worry so much. Like, ‘Damn, how can I be excellent?’ But it’s a journey.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.