I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.

I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don't really like going to photo shoots. I don't like stylists.

Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!

Lovers, forget your love, And list the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze.

Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution.

I think it was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

He that has too much to do will do something wrong.

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks