I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

There's high, and then there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high--that's where I'm goin'

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.