To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."

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

The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.

I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.

If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.