I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.
I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
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'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
