Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

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.

The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.