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Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...
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Beatles, women and children first!
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There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all
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All I want is the truth, just give me some truth...
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I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.
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As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.
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People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.
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The more I see the less I know for sure.
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Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?
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I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.
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I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!
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I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.
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You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.
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Your inside is out and your outside is in.
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I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.
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I want it to sound like an orange.
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I'm the greatest in this world.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
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Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.
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I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
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The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
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Love is the Answer. What was the Question?
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Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on stage and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine.
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I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.