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There's nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

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

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

One may not eat what has a face.

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.

We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

Every love song I write is for Linda.

We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.

At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time ...

Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.

The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him

I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces

When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

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

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.

If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

There are seven levels!

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that ... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.

There will be an answer. Let it be.

Think globally, act locally.

When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.

Long live all us crazy soldiers
Who were born under calico skies
May we never be called to handle
All the weapons of war we despise

Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm
in the midst of so much turbulence.

I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

I go back so far I'm in front of me.

Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you.

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

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.

Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say ... except the big black one in the hall outside.

There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.