England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America. Gerald Scarfe Read Quote
And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks. Gerald Scarfe Read Quote
And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn’t do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn’t get around to doing anything for a bit. Gerald Scarfe Read Quote
And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time. Gerald Scarfe Read Quote
And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time. Gerald Scarfe Read Quote
I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation. Gerald Scarfe Read Quote
All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn’t. They had big ears on them. Gerald Scarfe Read Quote
Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden. Gerald Scarfe Read Quote