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

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.

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'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.