"Although he had studiously ignored my existence up until that moment, Roger [Waters] had finally recognized in me a kindred musical sprity trapped within a budding architect's body. The star-crossed paths of Virgo and Aquarius had dictated our destiny, and were compelling Roger to seek a way to unite our minds in a great creative adventure.
No, no, no. I'm trying to keep the invention to a minimum. The only reason Roger had bothered to approach me was that he wanted to borrow my car."
"The fact that none of us [Mason's first band, the Hotrods] knew how to play was only a minor setback, since we didn't have any instruments."
"Although we [the Hotrods again] had access to some amps, these were so shameful that when we posed for a group photo, we felt obliged to mock up a Vox cabinent using a cardboard box and a biro."
"In a period when everyone was being cool in a very adolescent, self-conscious way, Syd [Barrett] was unfashionably outgoing; my enduring memory of our first encounter is the fact that he bothered to come up and introduce himself to me."
"The wallflowers, who had been left out of all the fun in the Sixties, got their own back during the 1980s by gaining control of the country and vandalizing the health service, education, libraries and any other cultural institutions they could get their hands on."
"Acquiring a van represented by far the biggest capital outlay - yet had none of the glamor of spending a student grant on a new guitar or bass drum."
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