If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

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.

So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?

To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.

It made me high. It really did.

Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!