I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

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 don't do live things.

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

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.

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.