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

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.

This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here.

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.