Freddie Mercury

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

— Freddie Mercury

No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.

— Freddie Mercury

It's not a question of money anymore. I spend money like it's nothing. You know, I could be penniless tomorrow, but I'd…

— Freddie Mercury

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply…

— Freddie Mercury

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

— Freddie Mercury

Get on your bikes and ride!

— Freddie Mercury

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

— Freddie Mercury

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

— Freddie Mercury

In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs…

— Freddie Mercury

“Put out the good and keep the bad - don't believe all you read in the Bible.”

— Freddie Mercury

If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.

— Freddie Mercury

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

— Freddie Mercury

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

— Freddie Mercury

I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years…

— Freddie Mercury

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

— Freddie Mercury

“The more you open up, the more you get hurt. So basically, I’m just riddled with scars and I just don’t want…

— Freddie Mercury

I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to…

— Freddie Mercury

I was born to love you with every single beat of my heart. I was born to take care of you every…

— Freddie Mercury

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

— Freddie Mercury

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say…

— Freddie Mercury

I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.

— Freddie Mercury

By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.

— Freddie Mercury

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

— Freddie Mercury

Following the enormous conjecture in the press over the last two weeks, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV…

— Freddie Mercury

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself…

— Freddie Mercury