Roger Daltrey

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 call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

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

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

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

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

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn’t want to go on!

Before you talk to people in music or entertainment or video games, or even gun control, you need to talk to psychiatrists.

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.

If I could trade places with anyone in the world it would be with someone who has lots of power like George Bush.

I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I’m sorry, did I say ‘scientists’? I meant ‘Irish people.’

You can tell an honest artist from one who’s just given all their songs.

I’ve signed breasts and bums. I’ve signed everything!

I took piano lessons when I was younger and I’ve been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I’d realy like to learn how to play the drums. They’re alot of fun and they require a lot of focus.

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

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you’re gone.

There are different audiences out there, and everyone has different tastes of what they want. And it’s a good thing because otherwise, there wouldn’t be enough stuff to go around.

There are always generic terms like ‘Americana’, but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

Last year in L.A. county 150 out of 151 incumbents ran unopposed. And come on. They could at least go through the motions of pretending there was another candidate. Just throw a robe on a pelican and tape a gavel to his wing. Or – I’ll tell you what – you’re in L.A. Just pretend you’re considering Blake Lively for the job. Movie studios do that all the time.