You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.

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

I'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me.