The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

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

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in

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.

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.