Nick Mason Quotations

People simply don't have room, physical room, to keep, for instance, 2-inch tape in the sort of quantities that are required to hold a full archive. It's not just a matter of having three or four boxes, it's 40, 90 boxes of 2-inch tape, and very few people have the resources that sort of stuff properly.

But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The album we did together, 'Rock Bottom,' I think it's really lasted well. It's a 35-year-old album, but it worked.

There were a lot of gifted amateurs in my day. Most of the kids now play fantastically well. I think there are so many bands around now who might get there, but it's a tougher journey.

I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.

The last thing we would want is for our fans to feel that we're trying to find the 17th opportunity to sell them the same song.

The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.

One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.

Of course, with the people you really know, no one changes that much.

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.