Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.

I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.

I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that.

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.