John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
I'm the worst on facts about me or facts about the Beatles.
The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.
My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.
But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.