She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

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 a swimming pool.'

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

Love is all you need.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.

To me some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too.

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

Oh, the weather outside is weather.

Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work.

The truth is, there are so many terrific places in New York because it's the greatest city in the world, and there are so many fascinating places to see that, frankly, it's humbling.

My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms.

To try and sustain a performance is always a challenge. Anything you work on, to try and be real and show up and not look as if I'm playing pat to anything is always work.

What's weird is that anybody can write anything, and once it goes online, it's permanent. My very first biography on IMDb, which was written by a manager I had at the time, was not true.

I'm, uh, not proud to say it - I play fantasy baseball. It's, like, the dorkiest thing ever.

I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood.

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

I grew up in a lot of different places, mostly in Kansas, I really started thinking seriously about acting in high school; I just did it better than most of the other activities in school.