I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

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.