Roger Daltrey

It was fun to sing somebody else’s song.

I don’t know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

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

I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don’t all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.

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

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people’s confidences out.

I think we’re a band with a lot of history now so it’s nice to come up with something that doesn’t have any history at all.

I had lots of breaks.

It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live tv.

If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it’s good to be married to someone who’s not impressed with that at all.

If you keep running, you’ll get something.

Paramount sent them nine-foot-high (theater lobby) cutouts of me. They say, “You don’t have to come home, we’ve got you in every room of the house!”

I can’t moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

Prostitutes in Lyons, France, sent a fax to the government to complain that they are losing business to Eastern European women who are protected by the Albanian mafia. Okay, first of all, how rough-looking are these French prostitutes that all their customers are running to the Albanians? Secondly, why did they send a fax, and from whence? Do they have a fax machine in the whorehouse, or did they all trundle down to Kinko’s – “You fax these, I’ll let you shave me.” Thirdly, how come French whores know how to work a fax machine, but every time I try to use it, I hit Powersave, or I forget to dial 9? This just proves what my boyfriend always says – that I am dumber than a French whore.

I’m not perfect! I’m human. I make mistakes. But I try to be as conscious as I can about things I should be. If I’m going to do something commercial and mainstream and made for the masses, I just believe you can make those kinds of films with quality – and good ideas and good intentions. There’s a lot of negativity out there.

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

When David Beckham got a tattoo of Jesus, the response from most soccer fans was, ‘That’s huge for Jesus. That’s a big deal for him’.

The same kind of boys always like me. The ones that easily get their feelings hurt. Ugh! Then they try to get my attention by doing something dumb but I’m too busy to notice

I didn’t get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

[On Lou Adler] Lou really had a production deal called a label, whereas we had a real label. We had a great many artists, whereas he had very few. Lou also produced most of the stuff that came out on Ode. We were not producers.