Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.