I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

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

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

You can do too much and oversell your market.

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

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.

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 love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

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 stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

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.

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.

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.