Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.

Every love song I write is for Linda.

So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

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

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.