John Deacon

“I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.”

“You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.”

“Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.”

“I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.”

“Four personalities are bound to clash.”

“Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.”

“No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.”

“Live Aid turned our world upside down.”

“There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.”

“Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.”

“I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.”

“Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.”

“That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.”

“I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.”

“I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.”

“Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.”

“Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.”

“I wouldn't do go to another band.”

“We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.”

“No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.”