“Lyricists play with words.”

And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be.

One may not eat what has a face.

My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

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.

Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.

We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

Think globally, act locally.

The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.

We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity. To see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.

The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction.

You want the lyrics to match the melody, because if you are composing a song or recording a song, it’s cacophonous if they don’t match.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

I can’t write anything for myself. I can write when I hear like [John] Coltrane play something; I used to write chords and stuff for him to play in one bar. I can write for other people, but I don’t never write for myself.

A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it’s all you’ve got, unless you’re brilliant and can write totally in the now.

So for me it’s very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that’s usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.