Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977..

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories..

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would ….

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

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….

If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything..

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

It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do..

Give love, and keep blood between brothers.

It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you..

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also….

Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough..

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point….

There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fa….

Let my love open the door To yourheart..

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 a….

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in ord….

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects….

Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg..

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts..

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that the….