Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

She wasn't a big impact on my life. It's just interesting to me how interested the world is about Taylor Swift. The reason I mention that is because if I had [properly] gone out with Taylor Swift, I would've been, 'F-king hell, I am not being Taylor Swift's boyfriend.' You know, 'F-k. That.' That's also a man thing, a demasculinating [sic], emasculating thing.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

It can never be again! Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if life was over. But I'll be 40 when this interview comes out. Paul is 38. Elton John, Bob Dylan - we're all relatively young people. The game isn't over yet. Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert - but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.