Via Here Comes The Flood, 12 questions for Pete Townshend:
Our music was quite vengeful in a way. The uplifting subtext came from a mixture of humour and a genuine belief that music could set us all free. It seems trite – and I think we knew that if music could do anything at all it would do it only for a short period – but that is what we believed. So, we were truly passionate.
Not at all trite I would think, Mr Townshend…