Quote related to 'Was It All Worth It' from 'The Miracle'

There is a little hooter in there, because we thought, my god, we're really getting too overblown here! And there's an element of humour in there, in the lyrics, which is nice. It's a kind of conscious comment on some of the stuff we've done, it's sort of retrospective, and we did laugh at ourselves, which I think is good. We enjoy it, we like painting those pictures. It's fun, and it's something peculiar to Queen. We're pretty proud of what we've done, as a whole. We took chances. Some of the things we did set the world alight and some didn't. But at least we made our own mistakes. We did what we wanted to do. Music by democracy just can't be. Music by Gallup Poll is what I mean. You can't go around and ask everyone if what you're doing is OK. That's Freddie [the line, “leaving, breathing rock ‘n' roll, this godforsaken life”]. But that's very tongue-in-cheek, because he loves the life he has. I regard Khashoggi's Ship and Was It All Worth It as the two ends of the album, and both are comments on ourselves. We read about that kind of society life - the parties on the ship, the excess. We feel that we've touched on those areas at some time. We've been through it.

Brian May; Sounds, May 1989