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.

Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

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

Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play

Every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to. Even as a Beatle, they'd say, 'Oh, double-track that.' I don't know how you do that, because when I'm in a fill I'm sort of this blackout, just this pure me coming out and I can't pure me the same, twice. So, that's that.