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.

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

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody

My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

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.