I’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we’d take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.
I didn’t earn that much in record royalties. You’ve only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.
I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
That’s the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It’s inevitable. It’s not like it’s a surprise. But it is terrible.
If this ever-changing world in which we live makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.
It’s been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
There is good and bad in everyone.
Late at night when the wind is still I’ll come flying through your door, And you’ll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I’m a bluebird...
Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don’t we?
I’m singing ‘English Tea’ from my new album ‘Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.’ I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it’s something good to wake up to.
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 loved it.
Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can’t Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That’s going too far.
I’d like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
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 public transportation if it’s convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.
I’m mad, you know? I don’t think of retiring at all.