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.

When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.

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

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

Think globally, act locally.