To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible

As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.

I used to go to my local pub and it was like a sanctuary, nobody dared ask for an autograph. You went in there for a ploughman's and a pint, and you went home and watched TV. Believe me, there's more to watch on British TV than American, except for CNN right now. But yeah, I miss it.