Keith Moon, God rest his soul, once drove his car through the glass doors of a hotel, driving all the way up to the reception desk, got out and asked for the key to his room.

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.

Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

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