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

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

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

People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973.

I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.