Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.

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.

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.