I was brought up in the kind of Catholic situation up until I was about eleven years old, which was that God is this thing that we're never going to see, we're never going to meet, but you still have to believe in what we say. It's like this blind faith in something that they can't show you.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

When people come up to me expecting me to be just like what they thought a Beatle would be, they're disappointed. I never was a Beatle, except musically. I don't think any of us was. What is a Beatle anyway? I'm not a Beatle or an ex-Beatle or even the George Harrison. I'm just a man. Very ordinary.

It's all in the mind.

Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.

You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.

I want the Pope to have the Christ consciousness. I don't want to just talk about Christ.