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

" And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know. "

" 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. "

" And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles. "

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

" At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills. "

" Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later. "

" Drumming is my middle name. "

" Everything government touches turns to crap. "

" First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money. "

" For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s. "

" 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. "

" George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers. "

" 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. "

" I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band. "

" I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable. "

" I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it. "

" I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do. "

" 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. "

" If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is. "

" I get by with a little help from my friends. "

" I like Beethoven, especially the poems. "

" I love the modern technology now. "

" 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. "

" I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy. "

" I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with. "

" I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on. "

" I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage. "

" I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever. "

" I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play. "

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