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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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I’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
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Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through. You can go into a trance while you’re doing it, so it’s a nice contrast to real life.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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