I could have been an architect, but I dont think Id have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. – Roger Waters
Its a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of Late Home Tonight, where theres Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader. – Roger Waters
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the bodys final fall, nor the barrels of deaths rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. – Roger Waters
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if hes going to write poetry or songs. – Roger Waters
But further, in order to embellish it with flowers of language and gems of thought, it is not necessary for this ornamentation to be spread evenly over the entire speech, but it must be so distributed that there may be brilliant jewels placed at various points as a sort of decoration. – Cicero, De oratore