When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

Lyricists play with words.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.