The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.
I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.
I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
