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.'

If I were dead, I would be the last to know.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.