My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

I don't do live things.

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.