Starr: "When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer."

Starr: "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."

Starr: "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."

Starr: "I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable."

Starr: "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."

Starr: "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."

Starr: "I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy."

Starr: "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."

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

Starr: "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."

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

Starr: "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."

Starr: "Everything government touches turns to crap."

Starr: "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."

Starr: "And in a marriage you can't try and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned."

Starr: "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."

Starr: "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."

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."