I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no good. It doesn't matter what you are as long as you work.

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change.

If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know.

Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.

One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that.