What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

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.

Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland.

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.

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

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