Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

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

Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.