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

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

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

Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.