George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.