My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.

Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.

But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord builds the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted.

The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.

When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

It's important to reflect about what's happening inside Israel.