Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear

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

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

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.

A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit

Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.