Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.
Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
Kids who are middle class, socioeconomically, are surrounded by mentors. They have coaches, teachers, they have family friends, their parents have friends. They might have opportunities, they might have jobs that allow them to experience things that kids in poverty often don't have. Sometimes they come from dysfunctional families. And when you come from a family where money's a real challenge, then it might not be a priority to get you into a summer internship.
There are too few rich and too few profits.
Don't take things for granted.
Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.