The first one I actually met was George Harrison.

I'm happier than I would have been with the Beatles.

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

You need to be able to fill that space on your own, Maddie. You should never have to rely on another person to make you feel whole. That life is dangerous.

We'll get there!

Any story worth telling has been embellished a little bit, Skyco, but the best stories are born from an honest seed that simply grows a little in the retelling of it.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

You can do a million different funks from a million different people and you'll never get anything exactly alike - that's what's so beautiful about it.