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.

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

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!

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.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.