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

Queen anthem? Anthems are us! The I Want It All idea actually did come from my soon-to-be spouse at that time. She wasn't at the time. Anita had this phrase, “I want it all and I want it now,” that sort of summed up her ambition and drive and I just thought it was a great theme and set my mind working. I remember writing most of it while trying to get weeds out of the lawn in Los Angeles obsessively, but this… you know, sometimes things just go round in your head and you can't get rid of them, no matter what you do. So I Want It All became a sort of mantra in my head and… it's one of these things when you take it to the group, it rises to a new height and we'd made the decision for this album that we would credit everything to all of us, so it's a Queen song, which is good. It was one of the best decisions we ever made. It's nice that this song was taken up by organisations who were fighting for freedom in various parts of the world, which in a way, you know, it's part of the conception of the song. If you listen to the words, it is about the underprivileged kid trying to find a way to make his presence felt in the world. The end's interesting with Fred going “hoo-ha”. It became a sort of catch phrase in our little world.

Brian May; Absolute Greatest, 11th of November 2009