So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties.

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.