My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

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

I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.

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

Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.

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