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.

A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

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.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody