Syd Barrett
If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.Collection: Teacher
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'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me.
I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.
Mostly, I just waste my time.
I wasn't always this introverted.
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
I'm full of dust and guitars.
Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
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.
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.
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
Fairy-tales are nice.
I like songs that are simple.
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
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 of me being a painter eventually.
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.
When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.
'Arnold Layne' just happens to dig dressing up in women's clothing. A lot of people do - so let's face up to reality.
Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.
And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?Collection: Dream
You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.Collection: Reading
I’m not anything that you think I am.Collection: Thinking
It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.Collection: Men
I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it...Collection: Giving
I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was Emily. (on how he wrote "See Emily Play") "Chapter 24"-that was from the "I Ching", there was someone around who was very into that, most of the words came straight off that. "Lucifer Sam" was another one-it didn't mean much to me at the time, but then three or four months later it came to mean a lot.Collection: Girl
In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre showCollection: Theatre
All middle men are bad.Collection: Men
Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.Collection: Im Sorry
There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.Collection: Home
I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.Collection: Satisfied
You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things.Collection: Hair
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.Collection: Kids
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 was getting bigger and bigger.Collection: Light
Well, I've got a color telly, and a fridge. I've got some pork chops in the fridge, but the chops keep going off, so I have to keep buying more.Collection: Color
I really prefer electric music.Collection: Electric
Singles are always simple.Collection: Simple
I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.Collection: Done
The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.Collection: Art