Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it.

The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us.

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.