Matthew Bellamy quotes:

The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. [] It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that

To have your heart in pieces while every other aspect of your life couldn't go better is a traumatic experience. In appearance, life is fine. But as you put your day in focus, everything turns grey. What happened made me realise that complete, absolute happiness doesn't exist.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

I try to play squash but I keep running into the walls.

I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your past.I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.

When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you'd get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.

Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most of what you've got here and spread as much influence as you can. I believe that you only live through the influence that you spread, whether that means having a kid or making music

I prefer music that invents a universe.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.