I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
The aim is to get as much going out the back as is coming in. You've got to do that because for everything you get in you've got to give something out.
Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life
When people come up to me expecting me to be just like what they thought a Beatle would be, they're disappointed. I never was a Beatle, except musically. I don't think any of us was. What is a Beatle anyway? I'm not a Beatle or an ex-Beatle or even the George Harrison. I'm just a man. Very ordinary.
Sunrise doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It's not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away.
I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know.
It's basically against the whole idea of what always made rock&roll music interesting to me. I thought it was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expressions of rebellion. It was one channel you could take without havin' to kiss ass, you know? And right now it just seems like they're on a big daisy chain, each kissin' each other's asses.
It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.
In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.
You mustn't take any award so seriously.