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.

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

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.

Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.

People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973.

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

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