I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.

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

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.

There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine?

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.