If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.