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

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

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.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.