She's absolutely gorgeous. Heather and I are having a wonderful time. I could go on for hours and drag the photographs out, but I'd never get back to the studio.

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 …

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

We did it this way because both John and I had a number of songs which were great as they were but which we'd never finished.

I need physics more than friends.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach 'retirement' age seem very admirable to me.