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

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

I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.

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'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids.

My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.