My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

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.

A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well.

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

I think of friendship in terms of love.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.

I can barely listen to my tapes when I'm transcribing, because I can't stand how I sound.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.