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.

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.

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.

I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.

The Lord God knows exact when to act.

If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?

The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.

Design cannot rescue failed content.

I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I'm allergic to mould.

I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope, and she's marvelous.

I am ugly but what I do have is charm.

What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul.