Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

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.

Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.