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 music publishing I own is fabulous recording.

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

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.

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.