On his 72nd birthday :some quotes about life, being a musician, The Beatles and... video games?
- One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with
a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song
happen.
- I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
- Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic'.
That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now,
let's write a swimming pool'.
- None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
- I don't work at being ordinary.
- Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.
- It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard Heartbreak Hotel I thought, this is it.
- 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.
- If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
- There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
- John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty
honourable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect,
nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
- Everybody at EMI had become part of the furniture. I'd be a couch;
Coldplay are an armchair. Robbie Williams, I dread to think what he was.
- But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important colour in writing.
- Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
- My grandkids always beat me at [the video game] Rock Band. And I
say, Listen, you may beat me at Rock Band, but I made the original
records, so shut up.
- I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was
nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
- You know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
- I figure I've probably got a better chance of coming up with a good Paul McCartney song than Oasis has.
- The thing with The X Factor is,
you don't have to turn it on. It is really not a bad thing. You are
talking about people being on the dole (welfare) - this gets people off
the dole. It gives some people an opportunity, it gives them confidence,
it gives them work. There is nothing wrong with that.
- It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
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