I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.

I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.

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.

When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.