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

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.

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.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?