People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.

Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

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

It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.