My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It w….

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside..

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course..

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat..

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music.….

Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with any….

And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be....

It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take….

Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell..

When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hea….

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band..

You guys ready to do this?.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?.

Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped….

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... ..

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write ….

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past..

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley..

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard..

I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that ….

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'.