You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

You can't ride the rails anymore in this country, but you can follow the Grateful Dead.

The Beatles gave everything they had to give, and more. Going back to the Beatles would be like going back to school.

There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet ... not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. ... You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed [to] B E A because ... B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed ... the E to an A. And it meant two things then. ... When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music.