The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. -Pete Townshend Music
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. -Pete Townshend Music
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief. -Pete Townshend Faith
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true. -Pete Townshend Sad
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief. -Pete Townshend Religion
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. -Pete Townshend Anger
