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You can't live in the past.
Nobody does our music better than us.
You can't supervise your own history.
We thought Queen were quite tongue in cheek.
I don't want impersonators playing our music badly.
I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.
Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.
It's been a good ride. Queen is the train that never stops, I think.
I reckoned I could meet more girls being in a band than playing soccer.
It's good to be busy. I prefer that than sitting back and enjoying life.
It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.
To me, diva means an extraordinary, outrageously theatrical, brilliant performer.
I shall think of Freddie Mercury every day - maybe for a moment, maybe for longer.
Everybody's got an opinion, and I was just lucky enough to have an outlet for mine.
It was Freddie who instilled in us the belief that we had to make people gasp every time.
It is everyone's prerogative to retire. But it's like giving up on life as far as I'm concerned.
It took about five years until we were properly over Freddie's passing. You learn to live with it.
I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.
I fancied being a lead singer. I've always done a lot of vocals, but obviously, Freddie is the lead singer.
I'll tell you what I really loved: the version of 'Somebody to Love' that was in 'Happy Feet.' That was fantastic.
Freddie was the glue that kept us together. He was a very complex man: very shy but also with a forceful side to him.
I am a little deaf now. Without my hearing aids in, I miss a lot of peripheral sounds. I had tinnitus, too, for a while.
Radio is so heavily programmed; you have to fit into a certain box. So it's harder for anything different to get through.
I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.
There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.
There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.
Freddie Mercury and I both loved to have a laugh on tour. If there were shenanigans and good times, Fred and I would be there.
There aren't many good frontmen around anymore. Where are they? I can't think of a really young band with a great front person.
Most theatrical events range in the inaudible. When I went to see 'Mamma Mia,' I thought they were playing it through a megaphone.
If people are so obsessed with Freddie that they can't bear to see Queen without him, they should stay home and listen to the records.
We've been fairly eclectic in our time, and we did branch out. Whenever we got a little bit too far out, people started to moan and groan a bit.
I know that drummers tend to be the butt of a thousand jokes, usually from the uninformed and untalented, but I always felt I had an important role.
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.
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.
Freddie had this unbelievable power and stamina. He had range both in his voice and in style. It's hard to find someone that can do everything he could do.
We are just continually surprised and obviously happy that the interest in Queen and Freddie keeps alive. It's a constant source of pleasure for ourselves.
'We Will Rock You' we didn't think was a single. We almost saw it like an introduction to 'We Are the Champions,' which is a more classic, very grand song.
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 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.
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.
Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the '60s and '70s, rock bands weren't in the newspapers because they weren't considered mainstream; they wouldn't sell papers.
Our bassist, Tim Staffell, was at art college with Frederick Bulsara, who changed his name to Freddie Mercury and joined the band on vocals after Tim left in 1970.
Hearing loss has not affected my vocal range. I can still pitch perfectly, but without the hearing aids, I don't hear the intricate high parts of the actual spectrum.
We used to rehearse in unused lecture halls at Imperial and recorded our first album, 'Queen,' in 1971 while I was studying for my biology finals - it is amazing I passed.
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.
Our story is in two halves, as the band's career up to Freddie's death was 20 years, and 20 years later, our music is as popular as it was then. It's a sort of everlasting... income.
The idea of having proper qualifications had been very much ingrained in me. My father had a steady job for the Potato Marketing Board, and the family emphasis was on getting to university.
When 'We Will Rock You,' the musical, launched, I was amazed at how successful it was. It attracted a new generation of fans. Freddie would have loved it. He was quite into that sort of stuff.
We became closer and closer at the end of Freddie's life, and I think we were co-dependent in many ways. We stuck together for an awfully long time, and I think we all felt we needed one another.
I think people thought we were sort of right-wing or something, which we certainly are not. I think they got the wrong idea from the videos, that we were some kind of neo-fascist band. I heard a lot of that.