America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All Stars band together. It's actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I've put that together...more and more realizing that's what I do.