I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

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.

Think globally, act locally.

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

I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.