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.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

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.

There's nothing I'm embarrassed about

I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.

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