I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

Lyricists play with words.

There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.