The most important thing in the world, it's sitting on the couch, it's got spiky hair, it's defiant, it's filling itself with garbage--it's got garbage in little pots and it's eating it and as it expands it begins to eat itself as well. It feeds on itself, it feeds on its own excrement, it's delighted. It's very very happy. The more it comes out, the more it rubs into its hair, it's really pleased. It doesn't say hello when its parents walk into the room. It's that defiant. It raids the fridge completely disrespectfully--it may take two or three pickles out of the jar at a time. It stares out of the window. It doesn't wear its glasses in bad light. It smokes cigarettes. Sometimes it blunders into a manhole and spends days walking through the sewers. But it's not repentant. When it comes home, there's no "Hullo Mum, hullo Dad, where've I been", it's just, "I stink and you're pleased to see me."

It's the great civilising force of the twentieth century. It's rock and roll.