I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

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.

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

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.