The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.

Production is something Ive never come to terms with.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.