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

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.

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

There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.

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

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