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.

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.

I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.