I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.