You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

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

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.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

I can't remember really what it's like to do it within Pink Floyd. In my mind, that's a thing of the past.

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.