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'm the greatest in this world.

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

My soul is that of a drummer.... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.

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

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.