“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.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success.

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn’t on the list of the high-achieving.

Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.