Occupation: Musician Birth: May 19, 1945
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and….
I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission..
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending..
Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray..
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth..
I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more discip….
We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries..
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….
Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired..
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….
It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed, everything ch….
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….
Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977..
As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody….
I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café..
The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday..
I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing..
The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant..
The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds..
Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough..
If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything..