I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around

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.

Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.