Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.

In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.

Rituals are important.

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.

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

My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.