Roger Meddows Taylor quotes:

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!

Freddie will have been dead for 20 years in November. I was staggered because it doesn't seem possible that all that time has passed and I still miss him. He was my best friend, my best man. We shared so much and I owe so much to him.

I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out

It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere.

Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

I've always been a fidget. I can never sit still for long.

Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that's great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and you know and hope tomorrow is a good day

No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.

Sometimes the problem is not the people in the band, but the people around the band.

This was a brainchild of mine, to build a shop where you could walk up to everything and didn't feel like you had to keep your hands off. I wanted a shop that you could walk into and feel comfortable in, and I wanted women to feel comfortable in the shop as well.

We (pop stars) are people not androids. We've got views. I've got opinions and I don't see why I shouldn't use a bit of my art to put them over. I think music is one of the most powerful media forces in the world today.

We don't want to become old, rich and useless