I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.

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

I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

They said do what you want, because if we don't like it no one will hear it.