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.
Syd Barrett
I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.
I'm full of dust and guitars.
Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.
I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.
I thought 'Arnold Layne' was a nice name and fitted well into the music I had already composed. Then I thought, 'Arnold must have a hobby,' and it went from there.
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
Mostly, I just waste my time.
I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.
Fairy-tales are nice.
I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
'Arnold Layne' just happens to dig dressing up in women's clothing. A lot of people do - so let's face up to reality.
It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me.
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
I wasn't always this introverted.
Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.
I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
I think of me being a painter eventually.
Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
I like songs that are simple.
