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.

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

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'd like to end up sort ofunforgettable.

When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

Peace and love, peace and love!

I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.