"I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.“

-Pete Townshend

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"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."

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