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

Fairy-tales are nice.
Syd Barrett

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

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

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
Syd Barrett

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

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.
Syd Barrett

I like songs that are simple.
Syd Barrett

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

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


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

I wasn't always this introverted.
Syd Barrett

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.
Syd Barrett

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
Syd Barrett

I'm full of dust and guitars.
Syd Barrett

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.
Syd Barrett

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

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
Syd Barrett

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

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.
Syd Barrett