What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

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

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

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

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.