Quotes from Roger Daltrey

I can't retire.

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

I don't care what people say about 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.

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.

I hope I die before I get old.

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

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 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 people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.

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

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'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.

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.

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

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.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

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

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

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've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

Rock & roll was the only thing I wanted to get into.