"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."
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"I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body."
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"I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know."
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"The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right."
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"I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play."
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"I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever."
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"I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune and sing it to the others they always say 'Yeah, it always sounds like such a thing' and when they point it out I see what they mean. But I did get a part credit as a composer on one - it was called What Goes On."
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"I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow."
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"I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one."
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"I'm the greatest in this world."
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"The main thing is not to be afraid of that, to get to a place where you'll go gracefully, not screaming and kicking up a fuss."
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"Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on (stage) and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine."
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"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."
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"I've never had any big ideas about being the solo."
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"For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s."
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"The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite."
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"I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away."
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"When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here."
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"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."
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"I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do."
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