I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.