They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.

Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.

Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.