Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.

Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.

We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?

The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI and all the record companies - and just doing it themselves, online, selling their stuff, getting known through that medium.

Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well.

We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.