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].

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.