Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on (stage) and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

My soul is that of a drummer.... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.

The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That's all they'll ever be.

Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

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.

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

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

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

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

Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens.

Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

I've got a good right hook.

Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if you don't believe in secrets.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.