I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.
To tell the truth, I'd join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn't join a band with Paul McCartney, but it's nothing personal. It's just from a musical point of view.
I'm the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as well be the Holiday Inn in Nebraska - somewhere where no one knows you, and you're in a band situation just playing music.
The Concert for Bangladesh was just a moral stance.
Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.
I don't think the Beatles were that good. I think they're fine, you know. Ringo's got the best backbeat I've ever heard... Paul is a fine bass player... but he's a bit overpowering at times.
Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up.
People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about.
The Beatles will exist without us.
The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.
The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
The Beatles will go on and on.
If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.
I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.
They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us.
What good are three Beatles without John?
To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.
In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't important.
Some of the best songs that I know are the ones I haven't written yet, and it doesn't even matter if I don't ever write them, because it's only small potatoes compared with the big picture.
The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.
