Celebrity / Art Garfunkel Garfunkel Has Some (Weird) Stuff to Say About Simon Seems like he has some complicated feelings for his old partner By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff Posted May 25, 2015 7:54 AM CDT Copied In this Oct. 29, 2009 file photo, Paul Simon, right, and Art Garfunkel perform at the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concert at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File) It seems the one word that might best sum up the relationship between Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon is "complicated." In a new interview with the Telegraph, Garfunkel (who is set to tour the UK in September) vacillates between bitterness and apparent affection for his old singing partner: George Harrison of the Beatles "came up to me at a party once and said 'my Paul is to me what your Paul is to you,'" Garfunkel recalls. "He meant that psychologically they had the same effect on us. The Pauls sidelined us." When asked why Simon & Garfunkel broke up in 1970 at the height of its success, Garfunkel replies, "It was very strange. Nothing I would have done. I want to open up about this. I don't want to say any anti Paul Simon things, but it seems very perverse to not enjoy the glory and walk away from it instead. Crazy. What I would have done is take a rest from Paul, because he was getting on my nerves. The jokes had run dry. But a rest of a year was all I needed." story continues belowRob Gronkowski Chooses These Shoes As His FavoriteShoes Much More Comfortable Than Traditional Dress Shoes. Italian Leather and Running Shoe Technology Providing First Class Comfort All Day Long.Wolf & ShepherdLearn MoreUndoAverage IQ is 100. What's Yours? Answer 20 multiple choice questions to find out.Avg IQ is 100. Find our your score in less than 10 minutes! Taken by over 1M users so far. 76,162 users tested today.Free IQ TestClick HereUndoWSOP Poker Finally on Desktop: The King of Poker Games Is Breaking RecordsGet On It Now And Experience It With 1,000,000 Free Poker ChipsWorld Series of PokerPlay NowUndo Garfunkel asks the reporter if, at a recent concert with Sting, Simon sang "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (which, in the Simon & Garfunkel days, Garfunkel always sang solo). Upon hearing that he did, Garfunkel calls the move "a gamble," then reads the reporter a poem he wrote about a zebra. But there's affection for Simon, whom Garfunkel grew up with, too. "Will I do another tour with Paul? Well, that’s quite do-able," he says. "When we get together, with his guitar, it's a delight to both of our ears." The affection doesn't last long: Garfunkel goes on to call Simon an "idiot" and a "jerk" for walking away from "this lucky place on top of the world" (presumably, Simon & Garfunkel's glory days), and theorizes that the short-statured Simon might have a bit of a Napoleon complex. When they first met as youngsters, Garfunkel notes, he felt bad Simon was so short, and became friends with him because of it. "And that compensation gesture has created a monster. End of interview." Click for the entire, strange interview. (More Art Garfunkel stories.) Report an error