Art Garfunkel has unleashed on his longtime collaborator Paul Simon in a new interview says that Paul is the sole reason the iconic duo are not heading out on a reunion tour and says he's been ready for decades.

"Will I do another tour with Paul? Well, that's quite doable. As far as this half is concerned, why not? But I've been in that same place for decades.

This is where I was in 1971," Garfunkel said before pretending to address Simon.

"How can you walk away from this lucky place on top of the world, Paul? What's going on with you, you idiot? How could you let that go, jerk?"

He went on to suggest that Simon may have suffered from a "Napoleonic complex" and addressed their breakup saying:

"It was very strange. Not my choice. Nothing I would have done. I want to open up about this.

I don't want to say any anti-Paul Simon things, and I love that the world still loves Simon & Garfunkel, 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.

A rest was very much called for. The jokes had run dry. But a rest of a year was all I needed."