David Gilmour Does Rare U.S. Television Interview

David Gilmour, ex-Pink Floyd guitarist, singer gave a rare interview on U.S. TV. He discussed his latest solo project, his reasoning for not wanting another Pink Floyd reunion and his wife's contribution to Rattle That Lock.

Gilmour's close songwriting collaborator on Rattle That Lock, which was released Friday, is his wife, British novelist Polly Samson, who has been the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's main lyricist since the 1994 Pink Floyd album The Division Bell. Samson's lyrics to the title track of Rattle That Lock were based on John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. Asked his opinion of the words she wrote for the tune, Gilmour says, with a smile, "Oh -- terrific, when she finally told me what it was all about."

Explaining how she comes up with lyrics to her husband's songs, Samson says, "I walk for miles with [the track] on repeat in my headphones...But the more I walk with it and the more I listen to it, things just start emerging. And the music is so suggestive…David speaks with the guitar."

Another song on the album, "A Boat Lies Waiting," was penned as a tribute to Gilmour's late friend and Pink Floyd band mate, Rick Wright, who died of cancer in 2008. Gilmour says he misses the close musical bond he had with Wright, with whom he continued to collaborate until Rick's death, noting that in playing with someone for so long, you "develop a sort of telepathy."

Reiterating comments he's made in previous interviews, Gilmour tells CBS This Morning that he's been finished with Pink Floyd "for a long time, and that because of Wright's passing, it would be "impossible" to do a proper reunion anyway, while noting that "there would be no great joy in it" for him if he did do one.

He adds that the band "ran its course in a wonderful way. I don't miss it."

Meanwhile, looking back on the 2005 reunion performance by Pink Floyd's classic 1970s lineup at the Live 8 event, Gilmour maintains that "it was good to be a more or less friendly basis again after years and years of difficult times... The charity gig, we did sit up half the night carousing and drinking and laughing. So that was good." He admits, however, that he and ex-Pink Floyd singer/bassist Roger Waters "don't talk to each other very much" these days.

Gilmour currently is touring Europe in support of Rattle That Lock through an October 3 show in London. In December, he'll head to South America for a series of shows, and then will mount a 2016 North American trek that runs from a March 23-24 stand in Los Angeles through an April 11-12 engagement in New York City.