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

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

At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever

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 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.

Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear