If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

I like rock & roll, and I don't like much else.

To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.