Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.

Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.

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With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.

Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm

in the midst of so much turbulence.

Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.