If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.

We're not Beatles to each other, you know. It's a joke to us. If we're going out the door of the hotel, we say, 'Right! Beatle John! Beatle George now! Come on, let's go!' We don't put on a false front or anything.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

I thought up the name Queen early on. It couldn't have been King; it doesn't have the same ring or aura as Queen.

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were. There isn't a real comparison with anyone now.