By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].

I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

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