Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

If it screams truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage that it can't be sure it really has, if it stands up and admits that something is wrong, but doesn't insist on blood, then it's rock n' roll.

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.