It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

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I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never...

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never...

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing...

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing...

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never...

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never...

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that...

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that...

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets....

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets....

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important,...

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important,...

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find...

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find...

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by...

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by...

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically...

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically...

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character,...

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character,...

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to...

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to...

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde...

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde...

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach...

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach...

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect....

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect....

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was...

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was...

I don't do live things.

I don't do live things.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love...

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love...