[talking about his former band members in Pink Floyd in 2002, and why he had left Pink Floyd in 1985] "I knew that we were over with, as far as the traditional `band of brothers` notion of a rock group goes. I mean, we just weren`t like that any more and ...
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he`s going to write poetry or songs.
You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you`re an arsehole.
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.
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body`s final fall, nor the barrels of death`s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.