My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

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

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.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

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.