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.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met.

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.