I shall think of Freddie Mercury every day - maybe for a moment, maybe for longer.
It's good to be busy. I prefer that than sitting back and enjoying life.
There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.
My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me to get some qualifications, and I ended up winning a choral scholarship to a cathedral school.
To me, diva means an extraordinary, outrageously theatrical, brilliant performer.
Freddie Mercury and I both loved to have a laugh on tour. If there were shenanigans and good times, Fred and I would be there.
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.
Hearing loss has not affected my vocal range. I can still pitch perfectly, but without the hearing aids, I don't hear the intricate high parts of the actual spectrum.
I am a little deaf now. Without my hearing aids in, I miss a lot of peripheral sounds. I had tinnitus, too, for a while.
Everybody's got an opinion, and I was just lucky enough to have an outlet for mine.
Freddie had this unbelievable power and stamina. He had range both in his voice and in style. It's hard to find someone that can do everything he could do.
Once a musician, always a musician.
I prefer to stay out of politics, really.
'We Will Rock You' we didn't think was a single. We almost saw it like an introduction to 'We Are the Champions,' which is a more classic, very grand song.
I see no end to the possibility and the potential of Adam Lambert. He's a fabulous performer, and I think it would be very interesting to do something with him.
I know that drummers tend to be the butt of a thousand jokes, usually from the uninformed and untalented, but I always felt I had an important role.
If somebody's going to represent our music live, I'd like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.
I understand people who say, 'There is no Queen without Freddie. Just leave it be.' Because that's what we felt, following his death. All three of us said, 'Right, that's the end of the band.' But the band just didn't seem to die.
Freddie was the glue that kept us together. He was a very complex man: very shy but also with a forceful side to him.
Nobody does our music better than us.
