I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back..

Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence..

I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine.….

I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs ….

One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. ….

Most people don't know that I invented the selfie..

Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head..

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school..

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod..

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live..

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17..

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art..

My so-called career is a haphazard thing..

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?.

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need..

I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intellig….

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame..

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone..

There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store..

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun..

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done..