When all the Beatles went meditating in India with Maharishi, he said it reminded him of Butlins and came home early.

My own favourite was his [Ringo Starr's] summing-up of life as a Beatle: 'I go down to John;s place to play with his toys, and sometimes he comes down here to play with mine.'

He's solid. When he got married, he chose no model, no starlet, but a girl from Liverpool, a hairdresser's assistant. He'd known and gone steady with her for years. And when all the Beatles went meditating in India with Maharishi, he said it reminded him of Butlins and came home early.

Really, he summarises everything that's est in the English character - stability, tolerance, lack of pretension, humour, a certain built-in cool. He knows he's not a great drummer and it doesn't upset him. 

N. Cohn, Awopbopaloobop Awopbamboom (1969), 133