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

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.

Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.

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

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

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.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.