Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.

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.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.