My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

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

I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids.

I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.

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.