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" A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing. "
Want
People
Happy
" Fairy-tales are nice. "
Nice
" Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then. "
Used
Working
Everything
" Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours. "
You
Roses
Colours
" Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. "
Kid
Jump
Guitar
" I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends. "
Food
Like
Buy
" I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should. "
Should
Lot
Maybe
" 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. "
Easy
Head
I Am
" I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them. "
Other
Take
Then
" If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher. "
College
Would
Teacher
" I like songs that are simple. "
Like
Songs
Simple
" I'm disappearing, avoiding most things. "
Avoiding
Disappearing
Most
" I'm full of dust and guitars. "
Guitars
Full
Dust
" I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently. "
Very
Speak
Sorry
" I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. "
Waste
My Time
Path
" I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time. "
Mirrors
Guitar
Time
" I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people. "
Meaning
People
Song
" I think of me being a painter eventually. "
Being
Me
Painter
" I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any. "
People
Think
Young
" I thought 'Arnold Layne' was a nice name and fitted well into the music I had already composed. Then I thought, 'Arnold must have a hobby,' and it went from there. "
Hobby
Thought
Well
" It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point. "
Reach
Slow
Trouble
" It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. "
Me
Think
Difficult
" I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious. "
Had
Just
Nothing
" I wasn't always this introverted. "
Always
Introverted
" Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean. "
Clean
Nature
Living
" Mostly, I just waste my time. "
Waste
Time
Mostly
" The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it. "
Last
Good
Two
" When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group. "
Within
Everything
Group
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