Syd Barrett Quotes

I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

I'm nobody, who are you?

I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have these egos.

Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

I feel like I'm just built differently.

I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

They think I'm crazy and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius.

I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

I'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that... ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.

I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly.

I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.

I'm the weirdest person.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.

I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.