RINGO: "We have to turn into businessmen because of what we started, you know. I mean, we started it (Apple) as like a toy-- because we weren't businessmen, and we didn't know what it involved, and we'd just started this great empire thinking we could do it whenever we felt like. But it ended up that we couldn't, you know, we had to go in. So what we're really doing now is paying for when we opened it and played about. Because we used to keep everybody on forever, you know, just because they were like a mate or a pal. They never did the jobs what we used to keep them on. You know, it's like another time we were being played on. So now, if they can't do the job then they have to leave, you know, which is fair. If you don't do your work then you've gotta go somewhere else, you know. It's not a playground anymore."

Q: "There's one of the problems of becoming a businessman, which you've said, you had to..."

RINGO: (as he's listening, he comically points to the large 'Magic Christian' movie pin on his hat for the camera.)

Q: (laughs) "Yeah... we got that!"

RINGO: "That's why I'm here, folks."

Q: "...is that you had to, at certain times anyway, be ruthless about hiring and firing and that sort of thing. Do you find that you've had to remove yourself from that so that you have a kind of hatchet man?"

RINGO: "Yes. We're all cowards."

(laughter)

RINGO: "We don't like firing anyone. We have Peter Brown. (laughs) Again, the dreaded Peter Brown. He fires everyone and puts his coat on specially to do it."

(laughter)

Q: (jokingly) "So they know it's coming."

RINGO: "No, no. (jokingly) But he always sacks them while he looks smart!"

Q: "Is your interest in science fiction tied up in any way with what you feel about religion?"

RINGO: "Yes in a way, because I really can't believe that this is the only planet with anything going on. Because there's like-- the law of averages-- If there's fifty billion planets in the solar system, I don't know how many there are, but that's only in OUR solar system. And then there's like millions of other solar systems. So if you just take the ratio of-- in our system of five planets, there's the earth where there's something living for definite, because we're all here. So if you sort of do that, on average, there's gotta be somebody else out there, you know."

"I mean, George has a great scene where-- like, Mars where we say there's no one on it. But that's like, there is someone on it, because it's just in another sort of time dimension which we can't see. Also, like earth, you know-- There's another race going on as well for which the time is just slightly different. So everything is like sort of, you know, one thing. But the times are like that! (gestures to demonstrate with his hands.) So there could be like a hundred races living on just this planet... which is fantastic. And I really think it could be like that 'cuz we really don't know much about time in respect to it being different from OUR time. (laughs) I don't mean one o'clock, two o'clock."

Q: "No."

RINGO: "I just mean like time spent and the fourth dimension. I mean, we know there's three dimensions, and there's theories about a fourth dimension, but there could be fifty dimensions. And just-- we're not bright enough to catch 'em all. In America, there's a guy (in the news) who's building a time spaceship. You just get in it and you press a button, and you open the door. And you're somewhere else but purely in time. And this guy's building it purely on instructions from another planet. You know, and all the weird stories about spaceships landing all the time. UFO (sightings) which they keep trying to squash. I mean-- how many sightings there are, all those people can't be wrong, you know. I just wonder why the government is trying to squash that all the while-- which is nothing to do with what we were talking about-- but I just wonder what the governments are doing."

 As you probably know, there was a drummer before Ringo, but the 3 picked Ringo to go with them, and that is history now !!!!!! Below I tried to find some rare photos of Ringo, so enjoy !!!!!!!

 this is him now, still performing.................. wow what a drummer and a Man !!!!!!!!

 and here he was in 1964 drumming his heart out !!!!!!!!!!! AND BELOW YOU WILL SEE HIM IN 1998 AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL AND DO YOU REMEMBER THE LUCH PAILS "OF YELLOW SUBMARINE"?