And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

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

I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

Don't hate what you don't understand!

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

We were cowards when we sacked him.