Success is buried in the garden of failure.

The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra.

When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese.

People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

Country and western is the music of the devil. Thats the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldnt handle it.

Ive been married three times and divorced three times.

The devil can only enter your mind only through whisperings . A silent heart is a fortress unassailable A pure heart is a fortress unassailable.

If you walk with the light of the world, you will have the light of life.

Without love, we are pointless. With it, we are infinite.

Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears.

People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss.

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Beware of the clever ones; the dumb ones are safer.

You must do everything you can to make your appearance pleasing, but the minute you walk out the door, forget yourself and start concentrating on others.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.