Roger Daltrey Quotes

Sam Smith is amazing.

I love SZA. She's great.

I love Adele. Adele is my favorite artist. She's British. She's funny. She's just an amazing, incredible voice, and I love to sing as well.

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.

John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

I have a lot of love and respect for Melissa Etheridge. I love Joe Cocker, Ray LaMontagne, Feist.

I think Christina Aguilera is great; I would love to work with her.

I love Beyonce.

I love Jessica Simpson. I love her voice. She's amazing.

I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

I think I would fan over Beyonce or Adele. Those are my two girl idols, definitely.

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

It's weird but I've never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I've always been drawn more to the rock star. I love a guy on the microphone commanding an audience.

I would love to do a song with Janet Jackson. Janet was, is, forever will be, the ultimate. She's the ultimate dream girl for every guy - and for every girl.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.

Adele ain't soul.

You can't ever really replace Jon Anderson because he's been such a force in the music business.

The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like 'cause I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.

I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

I wouldn't mind being the male Adele. She came along, and people were like, 'Damn, we haven't heard anyone this real for years.'

I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

I would love to play Janis Gaye in the Marvin Gaye story. If they ever do the Marvin Gaye story, I would love to play Janis - just throwing that out there.