Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.

If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.

When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.

Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.