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.

Barrett is also portrayed briefly in the opening scene of Tom Stoppard's play Rock 'n' Roll (2006) performing "Golden Hair". Barrett was known to have used Binson delay units to achieve his trademark echo sounds. She insisted that Barrett neither suffered from mental illness nor received treatment for it at any time since they resumed regular contact in the 1980s.

He died in 2006. Barrett left the group in April 1968 amid speculations of mental illness exacerbated by drug use and was briefly hospitalised.