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.

I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.

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.

Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

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 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.