We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.
We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.
We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.
I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.
We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.
I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.
Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.
I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.
There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.
I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.
The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp
I hope I die before I get old.
Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.
I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.
Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.
No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.
I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I’m talking about, I knew Janis.
I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.
My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.
I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.
My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.
I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.
My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.
I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.
I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.
I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.
I don't care what people say about me.
I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.
I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.
I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.
I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.
I'm not always the most diplomatic person.
Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.
I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.
Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.
I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.
European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.
I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.
But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
I used to be a great blues singer.
All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.
I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.
I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.
