Quotes from Roger Taylor

You can't supervise your own history.

The only thing I've got is that the ring fingers on both my hands have a little arthritis in each. It's a worn out joint because of too much exertion and stress. But it doesn't affect my playing, which is good.

We thought Queen were quite tongue in cheek.

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.

Freddie was the glue that kept us together. He was a very complex man: very shy but also with a forceful side to him.

It was Freddie who instilled in us the belief that we had to make people gasp every time.

It's been a good ride. Queen is the train that never stops, I think.

It's good to be busy. I prefer that than sitting back and enjoying life.

'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 reckoned I could meet more girls being in a band than playing soccer.

'We Are the Champions' is meant to be 'we,' as in 'all of us,' collectively, not us the band. It's a shame that some people understandably had the wrong take on that. 'No time for losers' is not the kindest line, but it's really more of a 'we all of us.' It's a celebration.

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.

I shall think of Freddie Mercury every day - maybe for a moment, maybe for longer.

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.

I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.

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.

I understand people who say, 'There is no Queen without Freddie. Just leave it be.' Because that's what we felt, following his death. All three of us said, 'Right, that's the end of the band.' But the band just didn't seem to die.

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.

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.

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.

We really put on a very high energy rock n' roll show. We don't go around with our noses in the air. We're very crazy. But I think when we did 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' people thought we take ourselves very seriously.

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.