I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.

To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

I don't believe in Beatles.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.