I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.

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