When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

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.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

A runner doesn't just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win?

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

Some of the great pictures happen along the journey and not necessarily at your destination.