Quotes from Roger Waters

I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting.

We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.

I have no problem with any question.

The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

There are so many people out there who think they are fans of Pink Floyd - and certainly the work I did in Pink Floyd - who are still furious that I left.

ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end

The United States has such an opportunity to be a leader in the world, and that opportunity has been frittered away.