You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.

I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.

I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids.

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play