"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."

Audience, Audiences, Eating, France

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"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."

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"The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to."

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"Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern."

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Language

"People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it."

People

"I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar."

Father

"It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid."

Being

"Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon."

Wife

"My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever."

Mother

"It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things."

Faces

"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."

Name

"Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better."

Now

"I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me."

Thought