The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

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

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

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.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.