There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in

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

To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.

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

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

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.

On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.