“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 Rolling Stone, December 1971
“It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here, and I'm most obliged to you for making it clear that I'm not here.”Syd Barrett Jugband Blues
“Their choice of material was always very much to do with what they were thinking as architecture students. Rather unexciting people, I would've thought, primarily. I mean, anybody walking into an art school like that would've been tricked--maybe they were working their entry into an art school.”Syd Barrett Syd Barrett interview in Melody Maker, 1971-03-27