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

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

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

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.

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

You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.