Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a silly sex scandal just to sell a record!

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.