Quotes By Ringo Starr

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

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

I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles.

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

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

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.

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

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

And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.

People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.

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.

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.

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.

I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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 couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.

The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.

Drumming is my middle name.

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.

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.

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

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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.