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Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
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I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.
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You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.
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I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.
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I am in a space now where I can try anything; and with Pink Floyd we've always been in a space where we were able to try out anything. I think we were very young then and we were very keen to experiment and try things out. It seems to me that this sort of experimenting is like working yourself towards something and trying to find what you like and what you want.
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I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.
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Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.
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When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
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I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.
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But I can't find anybody. That's the problem. I don't know where they are. I mean, I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.
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Ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end.
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All middle men are bad.
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I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
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I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.
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I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.
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Make life an art rather than art from life.
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Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
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There is irreducible chance in the universe.
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I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.
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I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.
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If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
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I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
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All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
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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.