We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

I'm happier than I would have been with the Beatles.

The first one I actually met was George Harrison.

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That's Capitalism!

It doesn't matter what others are doing. It matters what you are doing.

(It’s) a fair exchange. You’re giving me attention. That’s a form of affection, you know.

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.

Bill Blankschaen is an emerging new voice in Christian life.

I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.

No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.