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.

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.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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'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.

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

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.