I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Lyricists play with words.

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.