Dance is the only thing that lets you lose yourself and find yourself at the same time..

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing..

Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me..

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a v….

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf..

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real..

Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous..

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which y….

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..

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

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his na….

In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted childre….

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world..

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven.

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

We won't get fooled again!.

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical song….

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..

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 pl….

I smash guitars because I like them..