Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

F irst and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them... My soul is that of a drummer... It came to where I had to make a decision - I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.

They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.