John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

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.

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.