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Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums.

Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

Playing the drums hurts my back.

There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.