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.

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 go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

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 tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

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.

From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band