I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

I don't stand back and judge - I do.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

You can only breathe out if you breathe in.

I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!