If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace.

I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

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.