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.
I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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.
There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
Every love song I write is for Linda.
We don’t eat anything that has to be killed for us.