It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.

I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.

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.

I don't believe in yesterday.