Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.