I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.

I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

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.

If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.

For an electric guitarist to solo effectively on an acoustic guitar you need to develop tricks to avoid the expectation of sustain that comes from playing electrics. Try cascades, for example. Drop arpeggios over open strings, and let the open strings sing as you pick with your fingers. It's kind of a country style of playing, but it works very well in-between heavily strummed parts and fingered lead lines.