Quotes from Ringo Starr

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.

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

Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964) "How do you find America?" "Turn left at Greenland.

Peace and love, peace and love!

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

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

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

Everything government touches turns to crap.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

Last night I had a peace dream...

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

Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.

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

Books are good.

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

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

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

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.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

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.

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

I love the modern technology now.

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