Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.
Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.
For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.
Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything.
The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.
In one fell swoop we can now see the same mental health benefits of marriage for same sex couples as heterosexual couples, the main reason there is a benefit to being in a legally recognized marriage is that it introduces a level of stability into a relationship. This is going to help change the social climate. Hearing the Supreme Court say this is OK will help couples feel like they're part of regular society.
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.
There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit. . . bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.
There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.
The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!