Quote related to 'The Prophet’s Song' from 'A Night At The Opera'

The Prophet's Song had been around for quite a long time, and I finished the lyrics off when we were making this album. I don't know exactly what inspired the words, because I don't pretend to have any supernatural vision of any kind - it was really just my feelings, and I had a dream about some of it, which I put into the song, but that's not my usual inspiration for songwriting.  I'm not a very prolific writer, and I can never sit down and write a song - there has to be something there, and usually, I get a couple of lines of lyrics and melody together, and then the rest of it is really working very hard, searching the soul, to see what should be in there, but then some of the stuff I've done without taking it too seriously, I've been more pleased with it in the end.

Brian May; BBC Radio One, January 1983