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I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.
Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.
Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.
This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.
I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.
When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.
I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies.
I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.
My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.
Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.
...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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.
Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.
Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.
I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?
And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
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.
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...