My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

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.

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.