Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do

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.

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

I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.

I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.

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 never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.