Quotes from Syd Barrett

I think of me being a painter eventually.

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.

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.

I really prefer electric music.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

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.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.

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.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

I'm full of dust and guitars.

'Arnold Layne' just happens to dig dressing up in women's clothing. A lot of people do - so let's face up to reality.

I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.

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.

Fairy-tales are nice.

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

I wasn't always this introverted.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.