They said do what you want, because if we don't like it no one will hear it.

I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, 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.

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

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