There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall.

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.