I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it.

Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

Please don’t spoil my day; I’m miles away and, after all, I’m only sleeping.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.