It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.

When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.

George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them

I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.