This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here.

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.

I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

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

For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.