I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?
When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.
I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.
The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.
The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.
Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off.
If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.
I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
I am the best rock drummer on the planet.
I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.
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 think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.
I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.
I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.
I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.
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.
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 hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.
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.
I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.
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