About Syd Barrett: Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett is credited with naming the band. Barrett left Pink Floyd in April 1968 and was briefly hospitalized amid speculation of mental illness exacerbated by his use of psychedelic drugs.
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
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 like songs that are simple.
I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.
I wasn't always this introverted.
I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
I'm full of dust and guitars.
I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.
I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
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.
When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done…But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group...
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.
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 it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
