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I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.


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.


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.


There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.


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.


There's nothing I'm embarrassed about.


At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.


Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.


For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.


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


I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.


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


Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.


The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.


It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.


Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.


I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.


I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.


There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.