Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

Love is all, love is new, love is all, love is you.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.