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

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

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