I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.

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.

Thoughts were zipping around my head like fireflies in a jar, bumping into each other, blinking on and off.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

She's in the club. The hopelessly-outnumbered-and-surrounded-by-monsters club.

The underdog winning is the romantic position.

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song

Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle

But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!