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

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.

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.

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

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

I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.

I made all my mistakes playing with people.