If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.