“The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.”

“I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.”

“It's sad when people break up.”

“Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.”

“In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.”

“We tried not to age, but time had its rage.”

“The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.”

“All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.”

“His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.”

“I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the fizzy energy of NY seemed to feed on human frailty at night.”

“We didn't need light & shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness, self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of childhood, as well as the more obvious rage & frustration, joy & triumph.”