Roger Daltrey

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

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 were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

It was fun to sing somebody else’s song.

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. I was a right bastard, a right hard nut. I just totally closed the doors to ever wanting to know what they had to teach me. Rock & roll was the only thing I wanted to get into.

Of course, chicks keep popping up. When you’re in a hotel, a pretty young lady makes life bearable.

I’m the closest that hip-hop is getting to God. In some situations I’m like a ghetto Pope.

You can point any kind of laser at my face, but I don’t think Botox is for me. I think it is bad. People who have too much, they look like their faces are full of candles – a shiny, shiny face.

Like many, I don’t watch Saturday Night Live (even though I past hosted it) – no longer funny, no talent or charm. It is just a political ad for the Dems. Word is that Kanye West, who put on a MAGA hat after the show (despite being told “no”), was great. He’s leading the charge!

I really wasn’t heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

I love hearing educated people talk and just shut everyone up. Knowledge is always the loudest voice.

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

Maybe the best is yet to come, but I’ve already had the best.

I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky! Vanessa: (on her mom) She gave up so much for me. She moved many times so I could follow my career. Vanessa: I’ve always had problems with guys!

I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.

So it’s an aging product that’s decreasing in popularity and yet somehow it just can’t stop making money. It’s basically the agricultural equivalent of U2.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

[on Mae West] I do think she was a spectacular talent. There’s no question she was a comedic genius, but I did, in person, actually feel like she was some kind of a dockworker in drag.

I’m just a regular girl. Some days I’m super strong; some days I’m super insecure. I just speak my truth and if people like it, they like it, and if they bash it, they bash it.