I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.

In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All Stars band together. It's actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I've put that together...more and more realizing that's what I do.

The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That's all they'll ever be.

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.