Ringo Starr

“I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.”

“I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.”

“The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.”

“People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.”

“Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.”

“For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.”

“Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.”

“So this is America. They must be out of their minds.”

“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.”

“Peace and love, peace and love!”

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

“That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.”

“I get by with a little help from my friends.”

“And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.”

“We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.”

“I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.”

“We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.”

“That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.”

“I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.”

“Drumming is my middle name.”