Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

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

We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.