I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.
Freddie Mercury
I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
I dress to kill, but tastefully.
Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.
I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.
I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
When the whole point of Queen was to be original.
Who wants to live forever?
I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.
You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.
The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
I'm not into business at all.
If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.
Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.
But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.
In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.
We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.
I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.
We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.
