Early 1977. Pink Floyd had rejected our suggestion for their « Animals » cover in favour of Roger Waters' idea of a pig hovering over Battersea Power Station. We had serious misgivings about such a notion (shades of Monty Python and the Goodies -- was it not intrinsically silly?) 

(…) Roger was very displeased with Storm, these are very old stories and I can't claim to remember every detail.

it's more because he wants to sing his lyrics. It happened once or twice a few years ago, I didn't want to sing his lyrics. But that was exceptional. On the contrary I would be happy to sing most of the songs but if Roger writes the lyrics, he wants to sing them and he sings them

Roger's thing is to dominate, but I am happy to stand up for myself and argue vociferously as to the merits of different pieces of music, which is what I did on«Animals».I didn't feel remotely squeezed out of that album. Ninety per cent of the song Dogs was mine. That song was almost the whole of one side, so that's half of«Animals»

Well, (I am) not as prolific (as Roger). One of the reasons for that is I’m a lazy bastard. Roger had - and probably still has - a huge amount of energy. He’d say, «I’m gonna sit down and write this» I was the kind of musician who’d say, «I’ll wait for tha inspiration to come». But I would think we were pretty equal in our share of the writing up in Animals

But I have to say Dave did some great work as well after «Dark Side». 

His contributions to those latter records were very important

If there were chord sequences there, I would always use them. There was no point in Gilmour, Mason or Wright trying to write lyrics. Because they'll never be as good as mine. Gilmour's lyrics are very third-rate. They always will be. And in comparison with what I do, I'm sure he'd agree. He's just not as good. I didn't play the guitar solos; he didn't write any lyrics

It wasn't one of the biggest, most productive periods of our lives I think. 

We used those two songs, which were from 1974, changed their names and tweaked them to put them on the album. I love them, I love this album. It's exciting and loud and fun and there are some good effects on it but it's really not our creative peak

On «Animals» I was the prime musical force. Roger was the motivator and lyric writer

I think he would tell you that I'd lost interest in the band -there are times around «Animals», where I would sit down with our manager and say, « I've got to leave this band, I can't stand the way Roger's being »,  but I wasn't really serious about leaving, though sometimes I wasn't happy

Roger was in full flow with the ideas, but he was also really kepping Dave down, and frustrating him deliberately

For me (...)«Animals»signalled the end of the band as it had been before

I don't know what (the tour) cost. All that stuff that one does to increase

the theatricality of the rock & roll show ? It's all quite expensive. And we used to have quite heated discussions, shall we say, about that. Some of us didn't want to spend any money on any of that stuff. And some of us did. So it was always a cause for contention