Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.

Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.