The sicker Freddie got, the more he seemed to need to record, to give himself something to do, some sort of reason to get up.

Nobody does our music better than us.

The sound levels on stage were so loud with all that constant banging and smash, smash, smash; it did untold damage to the fine nerve endings in the inner ear, though it is worse in the left, which is the side of my snare drum and the monitor.

I didn't take a lot of the videos seriously; making videos was one of the most tedious things that you can imagine.

I don't want impersonators playing our music badly.

When 'We Will Rock You,' the musical, launched, I was amazed at how successful it was. It attracted a new generation of fans. Freddie would have loved it. He was quite into that sort of stuff.

We are just continually surprised and obviously happy that the interest in Queen and Freddie keeps alive. It's a constant source of pleasure for ourselves.

Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the '60s and '70s, rock bands weren't in the newspapers because they weren't considered mainstream; they wouldn't sell papers.

I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.

Everybody's got an opinion, and I was just lucky enough to have an outlet for mine.