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I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.

We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.

It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.

Syd always gets in there.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.

There's no way out of here.

Love affairs that start in blood tend to end up in blood.

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.

We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

I had a girlfriend once. All we ever talked about was our relationship. That's what we did instead of having one.

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.

The trick to having a happy life is being good at something.

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

There is irreducible chance in the universe.

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

Make life an art rather than art from life.

Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

When I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women.

Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor.

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

I think I'm still trying to be experimental on everything I ever do, but it's not as obviously way-out and experimental as what we were.

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.

God created a system which gave us freewill.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.

Where would rock and roll be without feedback?

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know ... live and let live.

But you, your life, it's just starting, it's all ahead of you. It's yours to throw away.

It's not whether God plays dice; it's how God plays dice.