Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.