I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.
Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.
I hope I die before I get old.
I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.
I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.
I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.
You can do too much and oversell your market.
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.
I'm not always the most diplomatic person.
There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.
My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.
I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.
I don't care what people say about me.
I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.
We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
I can't hit some of the real high notes I used to hit, but it makes you have to explore different avenues.
My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.
I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.
The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp
Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.
I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.
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.