Quote related to 'I Want It All' from 'The Miracle'

We were never able to perform this song live. It would've become something which was a sort of staple core of the Queen show, I'm sure, ‘cause this is very participative - it was designed for the audience to sing along and stuff, very anthemic. Interestingly, I wrote myself a little bit in the middle. I can't remember quite why that was - it's a very kind of Pete Townshend thing to do, isn't it? But it made a nice little kind of duet in the middle, a little bit of sparring between me and Freddie, and I know he enjoyed that. Interestingly, we headed into the period where we decided to share the credit for all the songs, and I Want It All - I noticed John, elsewhere in this extra section, says that I Want It All was pretty much a finished song when we went in the studio; that was true, really. It's one of these riffs that I was obsessed with for months, so I would wake up with it going through my head. And the actual title was something which was a favourite phrase of Anita's, who was later to become my wife. One of her phrases was, being very ambitious girl, “I want it all and I want it now.”

Brian May; Greatest Video Hits II, November 2003