Roger Daltrey

“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.”

“I used to be a great blues singer.”

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

“In those days I don't' think they were even demos.”

“I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.”

“I have deliberately kept singing because I have to at my age. If I stopped for even a year my voice would slowly deteriorate until it's not there at all. That's a fact about getting to my age.”

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

“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 don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.”

“I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.”

“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.”

“Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.”

“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.”