A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.