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

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

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.

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.

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

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