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

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.

If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.

To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

Lyricists play with words.

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'