There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.

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.

Mind your own business

Without ethics, science would be cruelty.

Writer's a lovers quarrel - encounters breathe the quill...

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!

I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.

Give up trying to make me give up

They would grow old. They would forget me.