I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me.

I have been on stage on a few occasions where I felt I couldn't escape the interior of my - my interior thoughts. But Peter Wolf once said, what's the strangest thing you can do on stage? Think about what you're doing.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

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

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

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