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.

Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.