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.

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in

I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.

You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

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.