The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.

I believe that God is like a powerhouse, like where you keep electricity, like a power station. And that he's a supreme power, and that he's neither good not bad, left, right, black or white. He just is. And we tap that source of power and make of it what we will. Just as electricity can kill people in a chair, or you can light a room with it. I think God is.

I don't believe in Elvis.

The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.