When we finished the album, the Night at the Opera album, that was the track on it that we thought we were gonna release as a single in England first.

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam’s message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen...

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to...

You’ve got to keep things flying.

I have a few personal ambitions for the band.

People say that I’m a millionaire, but that’s not true – I only spend millions.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I’m an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see...

I always got great respect as a bass player.

The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite...

I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don’t interact properly in certain social situations.

In the early days I really enjoyed the freedoms it offered because I was happy to work the long hours as long as I was working from home a lot.

I’m probably too forgiving sometimes. You have to understand that when you have a commitment to do a tour, you have to keep everything on an up level.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you’re thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Lot’s of marriages don’t last as long as Queen have been together.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself,or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

It’s true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore.

I love Simon Cowell, he’s a dear friend.

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.

If I fancy a girl, I’ll tell her. I’ll say: ‘You’re fit.’

Since this our first show, I think they’ll see us sweat a lot.

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I’d work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original...

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only...