Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter. I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done. But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.

Syd Barrett

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I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

music stars song

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

being-real men thinking

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke? by Syd Barrett

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?

exactly-is jokes dream

I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was Emily. (on how he wrote "See Emily Play") "Chapter 24"-that was from the "I Ching", there was someone around who was very into that, most of the words came straight off that. "Lucifer Sam" was another one-it didn't mean much to me at the time, but then three or four months later it came to mean a lot.

girl sleep mean

I’m not anything that you think I am. by Syd Barrett

I’m not anything that you think I am.

You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything... by Syd Barrett

You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.

black shining reading

I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it...

bells giving looks

I wasn't always this introverted. by Syd Barrett

I wasn't always this introverted.

introverted introvert

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things. by Syd Barrett

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

avoiding disappear

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

pops band theatre

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours. by Syd Barrett

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

colour whole rose

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.

vaccines rich my-friends

I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem t... by Syd Barrett

I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.

should-have fun thinking

All middle men are bad. by Syd Barrett

All middle men are bad.

You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things.

guitar play hair

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.

records stones home

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

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

wasting-my-time waste path

Im sorry I cant speak very coherently. by Syd Barrett

Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.

im-sorry speak sorry

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

working-very-hard used fun