We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.

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

When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.