I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.