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.

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

Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

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

I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed.

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

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.