Just before I record, I go buy a few albums to see what people are doing. Whether they have improved any, or whether anything happened. And nothing's really happened. There's a lot of great guitarists and musicians around, but nothing's happening, you know.

People are afraid of Beatle music. They are still afraid of my songs. Because they got that big image thing: You can't do a Beatle number... You can't touch a Lennon song; only Lennon can do it... It's garbage! Anybody can do anything. A few people in the past have done Beatle songs. But in general they feel you can't touch them. And there are so many good singles that the Beatles wrote that were never released. Why don't people do them? It's good for me; it's good for Paul. It's good for all of us.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock-and-roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

A lot of people thought it was just about my parents, but it's about ninety-nine percent of the parents, alive or half-dead.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

It just seemed natural for us, if we made an album together, for both of us to be naked.