Quotes By Ringo Starr

I get by with a little help from my friends.

I love the modern technology now.

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

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.

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.

Drumming is my middle name.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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