What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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 think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.

I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .