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

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven

The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything changed.

Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.

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.