I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

The missing links in my life's work, no less!

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar

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

The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race.

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 get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is. I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law. I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.