Feeling So Gay, Feeling So Gay.

You Can't Stand Still On One Point For Your Entire Life.

We Were Terribly Excited, And I Think We Took It On Our Shoulders That We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971. That Was The Idea. And We Wanted To Just Blast Everything In The Past, Rather Like The Vorticists Did At The Beginning Of The Century In The Britain Or The Dadaists Did Europe, You Know. It Was The Same Sensibility Of Everything Is Rubbish, And All Rubbish Is Wonderful.

I Think I Quite Desperately Wanted To Have That Kind Of Special Companionship [like Marriage ] . . . A Special Relationship, Yet I Hid From It For Many, Many Years And Pretended To Be Cynical About It.

Of Course, We Found Out Later Syd Barrett Had Mental Problems. But There Was Something So Otherworldly About Him. He Was Hovering, Like, Six Inches Above The Ground.

Once You Lose That Sense Of Wonder At Being Alive, You're Pretty Much On The Way Out.