"It's not the fact that I WAS brilliant, I AM brilliant." "The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter." 'It's a very complex thing, and I don't know if I'm getting it across.' - about his rock opera, 'Tommy,' in 1968. At the Cannes Film Festival in 1979: "We're on the brink of something new. It will be similar to the invention of the American musical in the thirties. There will be a conceptualized, musical-video product and everyone's waiting for the first Sergeant Pepper, if you like, on video-disc. The contemporary musical form is about to be discovered."