Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical..

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing..

When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a messa….

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other..

I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operat….

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes….

And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette..

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker..

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away..

Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind..

I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks..

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing..

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often..

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis..

To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't loo….

People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them. They think they are cowardly, like w….

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone….

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish..

It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again..

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing..

I'm not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure ….