Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.

If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.

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.

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.