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

You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

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

There are seven levels!

I'm the worst on facts about me or facts about the Beatles.

I can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

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 can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

Lyricists play with words.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

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

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.