 George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement. |
| When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself! |
| I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything. |
| I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition. |
| I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple. |
| At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod. |
| Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD. It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school. Lucy was a kid in his school. |
| To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved. |
| I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird. |
| I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song. |
| Lyricists play with words. |
| I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest. |
| We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells. |
| In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. |
| I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do. |
| George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money. |
| Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.' |
