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.

Elvis died the day he went into the army.

I always read the papers, the political bits.

Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.