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 Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.

At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever

When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.

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

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