In 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be Yoko.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

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

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.