I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.

You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.