Quotes By Ringo Starr

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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.

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.

The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.

Drumming is my middle name.

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.