If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him

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.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.