Pete Townshend Quotes

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

I can't believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage.

I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

A lot has transpired in my life.

I am growing with my audience. When I made my debut, I was 24, and they have grown up with me. They are with me with each choice of mine.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Life is a work in progress.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

It's so crazy to look at your life and see how far you've come.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

I want to get more and more sophisticated. I'm ready to go from being a kid to being a king.