Freddie Mercury Quotes

Overall, I'm not upset at the press.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!

I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.

Does General Grant think I care what the newspapers say?

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

Past occurrences have generally shown that there hasn’t been satisfaction from politicians in the manner they were covered [by the press.]

I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

With any band, there's two sides - there's the image, and there's the music.

With the first album, we felt people didn't really understand our band.

As soon as you make a mistake, you're killed by the press.

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

Without television, Richard Nixon would not have a chance. He would not have a prayer of being elected because the press would not let him get through to the people.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

You would think that people who are so powerful would not be so upset by little knocks in the press.

When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.

I hate good press, and I abhor bad press.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. I'd rather let them stay confused.

I know that people hate me. And I know I'm just a hack journalist and what we do on 'Lifestyles' isn't what you would call television brain surgery.

If you're in the Senate and in the minority, you just get to give speeches and run around and raise money. If you're in the majority, you're under attack from the press every day.