I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.

I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.

I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.

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.

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.

It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.