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I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.

The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?

No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.

We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.

Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.

It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

Where would rock and roll be without feedback?

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

When I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!