Oh, well, the only things that I've heard from them is that they wanted me to perform Dark Side of the Moon with them in London the last time they did a great big world tour, but I didn't want to do that. And I think they kinda want me to pat them on the head and say, «Everything's okay guys, you did good. And it's all right» You know, I feel fine about what's happened.It was kind of hard for a while, just realizing just how powerful the name was. But, you know, a lot of water's gone under the bridge. I'm really enjoying my life, and I'm really happy doing the work I'm doing.I can't imagine a «Hell Freezes Over» tour, to be honest. As far as I can see, it would still be allowing the numbers to rule. I can't think of any reason for me going back and making a Pink Floyd record and doing a show or a tour or anything other than if I was to say, «Okay, you got me. I wanna be a big star, I want all of that, I want all of that weight that I disavowed when I left, and I want to re-embrace all of that stuff that I attacked when I wrote The Wall, I want to change all my philosophies,everything that I've said and that I feel about music and my own integrity and my politics and everything about my life, I reneg now, and let's all go out and make a lot of money together».That's not gonna happen. All of those things in my life are really important to me: the music is really important to me. The kind of magic that we had before we were successful is real important to me. That connection between the performer and the audience and the ideas in the songs -- I want to be part of that. I don't want a part of this 'D'you know how much we've grossed?' crap. I haven't wanted that since 1977 when I said, 'I don't want that, and I never want to do that again.' I still never want to do that again

I don't think we'd get through the first half an hour of rehearsal. I know 

if I stood on a stage I'd feel «Ugh, I don't like this. I don't want to be here doing this, it does not feel good». There's too much history. We've made our decisions, gone our separate paths. If I'm going to be on stage playing music, even «Dark Side of the Moon», I want it to be with people that I love

I started making notes for this book in 1994, we had just finished a world tour, and for the first time in months I was not involved in trying to stuff another bundle of free T-shirts, tour jackets, hotel soaps and towelling robes into my suitcase. I thought it was time to deal with the questions I'd been asked 30-odd-years: « How did the band get its name? », « Where's Syd? », « What's it really like? »

Both Dave and myself, and I am sure Roger, but I haven't spoken to him, would feel quite strongly that if it is official we should participate in the writing of the book. Of course, Nick will remain a contributing member of the band. All of us, Nick, Dave, myself and Roger can write a book about dead memories, recollections, experiences about being in the band, but the problem here was it was going to be sold as the official autobiography and both Dave and myself certainly felt that if it was going to be official we should all be involved writing the book and certainly we weren't involved in writing this book. That is the reason that it is being stopped. It is because it is being sold as a official autobiography but really it was Nick's personal story

It’s been 15 years since I’ve seen or spoken with Roger. My wife is in the process of remodeling a house here in Atlanta.They’d been playing a lot of Floyd and Roger stuff on the radio here and that’s how I found out about the show. I thought that it would be good to come see how things were going, how things sounded…I had a lot of mixed feelings about coming tonight. I’m going to be living here part time and plan on seeing some more shows here, but hopefully not from these seats…

I think I’m the only one who's actually seen Roger in the last 18 years. Jon Carin, who was playing with Roger and was on the last two tours I'd done, said, « Please come along ». I still had a lot of anger - I haven't spoken to him since « The Wall » - but I thought, « Oh shit, why not ? » I don't have to see him. I was sitting in the audience signing autographs while he performed on-stage. When he did Pink Floyd music it felt very odd - that I wasn't up there, or Dave or Nick. It was a difficult one - for both of us. There are a lot of issues that maybe one day we'll talk about but at the time I didn't want to go into all that. I just said, Hello, « how are you ? you're looking well »

(...) Strangely enough Rick came to one of the shows on the last tour. 

I think he’d had a couple of drinks

He stood in front of me, grinning. (…) there was a bit of Dutch courage 

going on, but he was perfectly gracious. So was I, I think. He introduced 

me to his wife, I said hello, and that was it. It wasn't uncomfortable. We didn't have much to say to one another

(…) To say all, none of us did not come into the studio for this album. 

This is James Guthrie who had the tapes and who is responsible to mix 

in Northern California . Then he sent them to me in the same way as others. 

So no, we did not find together in the studio to work on this project

Agreeing to help promote « Is There Anybody Out There ? » does not 

imply that I communicate with David, Rick and Nick, other than through lawyers, accountants and caretaker managers. However, I do notice that 

the edge has gone off the conflict on their side as well. Only a few years ago David had changed all the editing I had done on the London recordings, and he was willing to wage war without even a cease-fire to get what he wanted. Or, if he couldn't, to ascertain that at least I didn't get what I wanted. But this time he left memo's on the mixing desk saying « Job well done », in his own handwriting

« Do you have to attend business meetings with the others? »

I don’t attend meetings. But yes, Pink Floyd Music is a limited company. 

And it administers part of the catalogue that I was involved in. They have another company that administers the stuff after I left. But I don’t have anything to do with the company because I can be out-voted on the boards.

But so what? There was a hell of a lot of good things and we did some good work together, of which I’m very proud. Everybody had a part in it, and so you could say that it’s a shame we weren’t all St. Francis of Assisi, but maybe if we had been we’d have had a home for sick animals somewhere and not made any records

David lives in his world and is happy. But this is a universe in which I 

do not take pleasure, which does not interest me

I have no regrets after leaving Pink Floyd. Absolutely not. It was painful,

 like any divorce, but necessary. We had grown in different directions

My life is simply too short to invest in something that will perhaps 

linger forever. So for what? Why should I waste what time I have left to revisit the bitterness of the past. Why go back at all? David's positions over the years have hardly changed. When I read old or new interviews with him he only says the same things. And why should he suddenly change his opinion? I wish him well, only good

There's no question that Dave needs a vehicle to bring out the best of 

his guitar playing. And he is a great guitar player

I find (this release) inelegant. Unfortunately I can't do anything about it. 

The back catalogue is owned by Pink Floyd Music Ltd., every member shares 25 percent. So I can be outvoted in every meeting - that's what actually happens every time. That's the reason why I don't attend them anymore

This is a best of, with all of his subjectivity. I would rather the songs 

recorded by Gilmour and the two others after i left the band were not 

mixed with the rest. And the discs have to respect for the chronology. In the end, it was David who made the decisions. He wanted to mix all, one can understand why : it puts everything level

If there are songs i wouldn't have put on there?  Oh, clearly. 

Everything made after I left

I tried to persuade the band to have a secret ballot for the track listing. 

But they all showed each other their lists!

Basically, I don’t care, nobody is forced to buy the disc

I was at a picnic on a beach on the island of Mustique just after 

Christmas, and I suddenly saw Nick Mason on a party on the other side, who I haven't spoken to in fifteen years. And I thought « Fuck, this is nonsense! ». So I went up behind him …

(...) He's invited me to dinner, and I shall go, because we were very close friends all those years. I feel as though at age fifty-eight I'm ready to let go 

of my end of the bone. Because it takes two terriers to tug on a bone, you know ? So we were having dinner, Nick and I, and we were talking

«What role did David Gilmour have in Pink Floyd ?»

A big one. As an example, he is an excellent guitarist

 «Do you doubt that the young Roger Waters was a complicated person ? »
No, and admittedly this had less to do with other people but with problems that I had with myself. I wasn’t exactly what one could characterize as easy-going, more the opposite

(But) I don’t think that either of those records (the two Gilmour’s albums) 

will ever be referred to in the pantheon of what Pink Floyd is remembered for. It pisses me off no end that tracks from those records get included in the Greatest Hits anthologies - but there’s nothing I can do about it, they just pick what they like. I gave up any claim tin the name in 1985

There’s no relationship. We haven’t talked since 1985, except recently indirectly in a strange telephone conference

We didn’t meet but we were all involved, we fought like cats and dogs 

of course. The usual stuff, squabbling about who’d done what

Unfortunately the human brain is capable of inventing memories that suit its own agenda

The only difficult thing was getting started because of the endless deliberation on whether the book should be done by the band or by an individual. And trying to reach an agreement on any story – it became obvious it wasn’t going to happen. So I thought, well, I’m going to do my own version. You guys can all write your own books 

Nick wasn’t an outsider, but he wasn’t involved in the creative process either. He was there to play drums. Don’t get me wrong. I think Nick’s role in the Floyd was fantastic. Wonderful drummer. Like Keith Moon, he played differently to anybody else. But when the book says, We did this and we did that. I’d think «Hang on a minute. It wasn’t «we». It was David and Rick and Roger, while you were in the back of the studio writing notes on car parts!» It doesn’t tell the whole story of how the band operated, how they created, how they worked. He’s also very kind to everyone