The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.