I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

Drumming is my middle name.

I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.

I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.

I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all.

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.