ROGER DALTREY

I can't retire.

Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs.

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

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.

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 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.

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.

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.

A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.

I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.

Who would have ever thought that I'd end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that's what I want to be.

I used to be a great blues singer.

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

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.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

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 love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

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.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

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.