Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.

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

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

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

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.