Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

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.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

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.

Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg.

Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.