There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.

I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?

People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973.

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

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.

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

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.