All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.

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