Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.

Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.

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.