It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.

It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.

Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.

The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.