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 think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.

I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.

I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.