I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.

Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.