If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.

Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping.

I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe.

I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.

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

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.