I don’t work at being ordinary.
There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people’s hearts.
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John’s death.
It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
Paul’s last words to Linda: “You’re up on your? beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It’s a fine spring day. We’re riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue”.
John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
I go back so far I’m in front of me.
When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
The good Lord made this world and everything that’s in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.