Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.

I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.

There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine?

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.