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

You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.

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

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.