I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

If you love your life, everybody will love you too.

I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.

I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.

I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.