Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.

Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.

With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!