But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

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

No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.

Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.