I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”

When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.