I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind..

If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein]..

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?.

In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans ….

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song..

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun..

One may not eat what has a face..

Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces.

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle..

Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun..

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals..

There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes da….

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer..

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance..

Lyricists play with words..

One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle ….

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us..

Every love song I write is for Linda..

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, alth….

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen..

If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die..