“What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30...” — Pete Townshend Quote

“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 songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.”

“Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.”

“I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.”

“They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.”

“My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.”

“Too much exposure is bad.”