Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

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.

I am not religious, but I am spiritual.

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.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

Think globally, act locally.