Freddie Mercury: In fact, my kind of loneliness is the hardest. I can be in a crowd and still be the loneliest person, because I don’t really belong to anyone. Over the years I have become bitter and I don’t trust anybody because they’ve let me down so many times. The more you are let down, the more you are hurt.
Interviewer: Surely, the time must be coming when you will really want to spend your life with someone?
Freddie Mercury: Yes, but no-one wants to share their life with me. The more I open up, the more I get hurt. Basically I’m just riddled with scars and I just don’t want any more. I’m petrified of being alone. I like to shut myself away, but I wouldn’t want to be on a desert island.
Just me,myself and I 