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

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

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

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.

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-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

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

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

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

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.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

The only reason a true friend won't be there to pick you up is because they are lying beneath you from trying to break your fall.

Let us make an endeavour to live life in such a way that it becomes an example in itself which others can follow

Jealousy’s a weak emotion.

Try leaving a trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips. You will be surprised how they will set small flames of friendship that will be rose beacons on your next visit.

Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.

Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

A Christmas tree--the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.