No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you..

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your do….

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I thi….

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work..

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down..

People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springs….

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing..

Fight for the right to live in freedom!.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested..

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar..

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students..

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn..

I think globally and act locally..

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe..

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the cha….

We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around.

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with..

There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer..

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go in….

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on..

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience..