Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.

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

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.