I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

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

Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.

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'.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.