“And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?”

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don’t stop. There has to be something else. I think it’s the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

I don’t think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.

There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

By the time we made “Abbey Road”, John and I were openly critical of each other’s music, and I felt John wasn’t much interested in performing anything he hadn’t written himself.

When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It’s simple.

For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.

What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

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.

Of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points.

Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

So you’re doing that the first two or three screenings, and then finally, you dial the movie in and it’s working, and at that point, it’s 50/50 as far as what’s funny and what’s working.

At some point, if you’re changing a really deep-seated behavior, you’re going to have a moment of weakness.

Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can’t have a Universe without mind entering into it, and that the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.

I just want to make a point that it’s not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it’s the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve

I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.