Happy Birthday Ringo Starr!

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

Ich liebe Beethoven, vor allem seine Gedichte.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Wenn ich trommle, bin ich in meinem Element. Ich könnte das noch ewig machen.

Drumming is my middle name.

Sparsamkeit ist ein Luxus, den man sich nicht erlauben kann.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

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

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

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.

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.

I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.

People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.

I love the modern technology now.

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.