"I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs."
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"Lyricists play with words."
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"I think globally and act locally."
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"No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you."
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"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?"
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"I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has."
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"She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles."
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"The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out."
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"I'm not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked."
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"Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far."
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"Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance."
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"I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road."
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"Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces"
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"I think the French girls are fabulous."
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"My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back."
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"It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on."
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"I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past."
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"I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis."
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"With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion."
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"I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop."
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