Syd Barrett

“I wasn't always this introverted.”

“The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.”

“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.”

“I think of me being a painter eventually.”

“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 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.”

“If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.”

“Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.”

“I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.”

“I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.”

“I'm full of dust and guitars.”

“I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.”

“A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.”

“Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.”

“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 sorry I can't speak very coherently.”

“I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.”

“I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.”

“I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.”

“We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They'll have to offer a well-presented theatre show.”