Friday 5 February 2010

Sooner or later you find when you keep seekeing

Why I've turned to God at 70, by Ringo Starr
By Ben Todd, Daily Mail, 03rd February 2010
John Lennon caused a worldwide storm by claiming that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Now, more than four decades on, it seems his former bandmate Ringo Starr has acknowledged a humbler place in the grand scheme of things. The drummer says he has found God—after taking a long and winding road to enlightenment.
He admitted he lost his way when he was younger, both as a Beatle experimenting with marijuana and LSD and afterwards when he suffered alcohol and cocaine problems in the late 1970s. But the musician, who has since become teetotal and quit his 60-a-day cigarette habit, says that religion now plays an important role in his life. Starr, who turns 70 later this year, said: '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.
'For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that. I think the search has been on since the 1960s. 'I stepped off the path there for many years and found my way back onto it, thank God.'
In his latest interview Starr—a vegetarian who is married to former Bond girl Barbara Bach and now splits his time between homes in Los Angeles, London and Monaco—also told how he finds it far easier to deal with life now he is approaching his 70th birthday in July. He said: 'Seventy's not as big as 40 was. … I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life.'

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