Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
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.
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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.'
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together.
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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.
I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
