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

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

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

To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.

What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

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.