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

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

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 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.

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 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.