It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.

If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

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