Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.