I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.

It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.