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

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

I’ve never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

I don’t think there’s any way it could have failed. We don’t know failure in this band. We didn’t know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there...

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

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

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.

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 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...

I don’t have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock ‘n’ roll could change anything – I don’t believe that. I’ve changed.

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

I can’t retire.

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...

I’m a rock god? I’m five foot seven. 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…...

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 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...

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.

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

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.

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

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.

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...

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

Unless you’ve been touched personally, it’s difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

I’m not always the most diplomatic person.

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.

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.

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

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

In those days I don’t’ think they were even demos.

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...

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...

I hope I die before I get old.

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

I don’t think you should ever say, ‘This is the last time’. Music isn’t like that. You’ll be sitting there not wishing to get onto a stage again for maybe two, three, four, five months,...

My feeling was that I simply didn’t have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we...

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...

I don’t care what people say about me.

You can do too much and oversell your market.

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

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

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

I don’t over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn’t hear myself.

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...

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