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'.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

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.

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.