Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.

We're not ignored by The Guinness Book Of Records, but we've been largely ignored by the media during our lifetime. If you read any article, no mention is ever made of Pink Floyd. We're never included in the same sentences as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. I wrote 'The Wall' as an attack on stadium rock - and there's Pink Floyd making money out of it by playing it in stadiums! Pathetic. They spoiled my creations.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.