I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody

When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures.

Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.

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

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

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'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.