The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

Shower the people you love with love.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

Music reminds us that the universe loves us

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.