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

I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

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.

From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band

I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?