I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...

At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

Don't you think that the Beatles gave every sodden thing they've got to be the Beatles? That took a whole section of our youth - that whole period - when everybody else was just goofin' off we were workin' 24 hours a day!