"I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone."

"We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch."

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

"When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place."

"I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence."

"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."

"A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies."

"I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous."

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

"This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here."

"My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye."

"My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century."

"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've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now."

"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."

"The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience."

"If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing."

"I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace."

"Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era."

"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."

"Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Thosethat focus on value creation will thrive."

"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all."

"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas"

"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain"

"Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways."

"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity..."

"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely not happen."

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."

"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience."

"Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting."

"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."

"The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it."

"In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures."

"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."

"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists."

"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."

"Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see."

"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."

"I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis"

"My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player."

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

"A good video can make all the difference"

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

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

"Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh."

"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."

"There's nothing I'm embarrassed about"

"I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice."

"I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid."

"On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes."