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I work too hard and don't play enough.

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from Seattle. But in Vegas, you have six from Seattle, a bunch from L.A., some local Las Vegans and maybe a farmer from Iowa. In Vegas, you learn the ins and outs of holding a room because of that great spectrum of folks.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people.

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me to that little pro-am thing, but I'm not big enough.

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.

Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.