I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.
If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.
I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.
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.
Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?
Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.
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.
I am not a technophobe and I am using the latest technology today, some 30-odd years later, and I am really enjoying what some of the new technologies can offer. But at the same time I am always aware that one can get bogged down in that technology and that it can become more than just a method. That's something that you have to be slightly careful of.
Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.
I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.
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.
I remember Adrian [Maben, director] had lots of problems with red tape and dealing with stuff. I think we lost two or three days. Maybe those were the days we had to walk around the summit of Vesuvius, and we went around to the sulfur pits where the ground is bubbling. It's near here. It's fantastic.
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.
I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.
If you are in a band or in any situation with other people there are obviously brilliant aspects to it, but there are also things that you start finding yourself tied to.
Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well.
The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI and all the record companies - and just doing it themselves, online, selling their stuff, getting known through that medium.
I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.
To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.
The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
The old ways still apply. You can still send tapes to record companies, and there are record companies, you know, there are one or two of the record companies do declare proudly that they listen to every single one that comes.
I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental.
