I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance.
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.