I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.

We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

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 mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.

Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.