I have never been married, but that doesn't mean that I didn't mate. As you get older you get too many bad habits. Who is ever going to put up with me?

When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of thing never happens.

Don't look to me. Don't ask for help. Don't ask for anything that you can do yourself

You've got to try to figure out which is the bigger benefit and which is the bigger loser. It nearly killed him [Eric Clapton ]; he was in a very, very bad way for a long time, but he came through it. Most people don't come through it because they don't have the money to buy the people to look after them.

People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don't think they should, really.

It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame.

They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.