“You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues…And you know it don’t come easy.”

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don’t know, they just drive me crazy.

Wake up meat head, don’t pretend that you are dead.

I don’t like talking. It’s how I’m built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don’t mind talking or smiling, it’s just I don’t do it very much. I haven’t got a smiling face or a talking mouth.

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.

Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I’m trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

I never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

I’m nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I’m due on stage. But I’m all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.

I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you’re so ill.

If you could play, I’d play with you all night. But if I’m just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.

They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It’s a different religion from ours – I think.

People only look at me as a Beatle but my friends look at me as a whole person. That’s how life works, but it’s not bugging me anymore.

You’re like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I’ll get you is to get you in bed.

Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.

It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past.

It is easier to move on when you have someone else to fill the emptiness.

How easy it was to hide from everything; everything except the truth in your eyes.

Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.