Quotes By Roger Daltrey

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.

I can't retire.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I used to be a great blues singer.

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

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.

I hope I die before I get old.

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