My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

There's no way out of here.