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.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

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

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

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.

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.

Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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.

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.

I am a loyalist and I really absolutely love film.

The paparazzi have got worse for everyone over the years. It has just become such a big deal. No-one in this business really has much privacy.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other.

Don't pole-vault over mouse turds.