18 Quotes by Matthew Bellamy

And you will suck the life out of meBury itI won't let you bury itI won't let you smother itI won't let you murder itAnd our time is running outAnd our time is running outYou can't push it undergroundYou can't stop it screaming outHow did it come to this?

I prefer music that invents a universe.

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

The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.

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.

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.

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

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.