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.

I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.

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.

I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

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

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