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

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

Little ideas can pop into one's head at any time, and if I'm being reasonably efficient I've got it close enough to hand, then I pop that little tiny moment of a few seconds down onto a tape and then I can forget about it for... years sometimes.

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

I don't know what you wanna describe as Rock 'n' Roll, but I certainly thought that 60s stuff, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, changed the world a little bit. But the effect seems to have retreated. I think it's harder than we think to change the world. These things go in cycles. It doesn't seem to have done an awful lot of good, does it? You know, all the talk of racial harmony and equality in the world... we haven't got a long way since the 60s.

God created a system which gave us freewill.

People being incredibly rude and playing music incredibly badly and being incredibly obnoxious has always been a teenage sort of thing.