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.

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

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

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.

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

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