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.

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

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

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

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.

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.