From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love it so that's why I do it.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

My soul is that of a drummer.... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.

The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That's all they'll ever be.

Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

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

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

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

You are all wave particles when I close my eyes. I am no more entranced by your entanglement than a butterfly is to a bee.

I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.

I believe we are powerful but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

I'm into women. I just really like women a lot.