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….

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

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

Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time..

When I sing, I try to live the song or live the emotion of the song. The space I'm in doesn't exist. It's another world..

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

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 used to be a great blues singer..

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

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 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 ….

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 u….

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

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

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

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….

The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp.

I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band..

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

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 ….

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-old….