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

Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.

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.

We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do

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