Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer

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.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!

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

I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.