There is good and bad in everyone.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.

If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].

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.

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