Quotes from Brian May

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.

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

The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I'm not, then I'm not an incredibly good person to be around. If I'm not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That's just the way things are.

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

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

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

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

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

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody

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 pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

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

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 like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

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

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

I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.

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

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.

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

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.

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