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“From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band”

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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

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Mantovani was a great influence on me.

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Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has…

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

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The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

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Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

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