You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.

I'm not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked.