This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.
Roger WatersPeople are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and to embrace the rest of the human race. People are ready for the idea that we're all brothers and sisters and that we need to cooperate with one another.
Roger WatersWhen 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.
Roger WatersYou can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.
Roger Waters