My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

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

If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

There will be an answer. Let it be.

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.