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

With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

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.

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.