He said, 'We both have to get married and have families. That's what we both want; that's what we both need.' He never talked to me like a man that was worried about cutting it [life] short or having it cut short.

When he was interested and participating, his energy was powerful. He had the greatest of intellectual qualities - curiosity about everything.

I liken it to a kind of star or comet that fell through the sky and everybody still talks about it. They say, 'Ah, remember the night when you saw that shootin…

[Stuart Sutcliffe] was really our leader, and he was really into the James Dean thing. He idolized him. Stuart died young before we made the big time, but I su…