The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

Everybody knows that if they're happy then usually the people around them are happy, or that people around them happy make them a little happier; that's a proved thing, like "I give to you and you give to me"; they all know that but they haven't thought about it to the point of every action that they do. That's what it is with every action that you do, there's a reaction to it, and if you want a good reaction then you do a good action, and if you want a bad one, then you punch somebody.