When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

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.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.