It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

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

I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

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

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around