If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing.

We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.

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 think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.