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

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

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.

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.

Lyricists play with words.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!