When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

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

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

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