“I’d like to end up sort ofunforgettable.”

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.

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I’m still doing it. I still love it so that’s why I do it.

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

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.

Ringo: ‘I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs. I don’t think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about

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 love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I’ve never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.

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.

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, ’59 I got called Ringo.

Peace and love, peace and love!

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

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

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 be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We’d have a rocky edge.

People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

I’m a country boy at the end of the day. I’m going to pick up the phone and tell you I’m going to sue you.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?

The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

In the end, the only thing between us was silence.

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.