To make a million, start with $900,000.

I think maybe we (Queen) were subconsciously influenced by The Beatles’ albums, I think really, especially the later ones, like Rubber Soul, Revolver and Abbey Road. They were very eclectic albums.

I think that the centralisation of access to information through the few major corporations that by now virtually monopolise information transmission, like Facebook, Google, Amazon, is extremely dangerous.

I was not popular in high school, I know every actress says that, but really, I was a big geek.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

I know words. I have the best words.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

We have no guns – we have only stones, boxes of matches and petrol. Together, hand in hand, with our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist’s job is very interesting.

Does anyone remember laughter?

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

The only other person who has a clue about what this is, the good, the bad, is your partner.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money’s sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it’s just about a number. It’s never been anything I understood.

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Art should teach spirituality by showing a person a portion of himself that he would not discover otherwise.

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.