I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.

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 don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body, just the same, don't blame others for the shape of your experience.

Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like.

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered.

I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

We are buried beneath the weight of information.

Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.