David Gilmour

“I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.”

“It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.”

“I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It's a classic isn't it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that's how I release it, through music.”

“I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.”

“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.”

“It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.”

“I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.”

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