The Beatles Were Basically A Vocal Band.

There's Just Certain Styles Of Playing That You Do Play In Your Own Way. Maybe It's In The Way Your Fingers Bend, For All I Know. And So Whenever You Pick Up The Guitar It's Not So Much The Sound Of The Instrument Itself, It's Like The Ting That You Add Onto It-the Attitude.

Music Is A Necessity. After Food, Air, Water And Warmth, Music Is The Next Necessity Of Life.

What Is It That Makes You Want To Write Songs? In A Way You Want To Stretch Yourself Into Other People’s Hearts. You Want To Plant Yourself There, Or At Least Get A Resonance, Where Other People Become A Bigger Instrument Than The One You’re Playing. It Becomes Almost An Obsession To Touch Other People. To Write A Song That Is Remembered And Taken To Heart Is A Connection, A Touching Of Bases. A Thread That Runs Through All Of Us. A Stab To The Heart. Sometimes I Think Songwriting Is About Tightening The Heartstrings As Much As Possible Without Bringing On A Heart Attack.

[joking About The Length Of The Rolling Stones' Career] You Have The Sun, You Have The Moon, You Have The Air That You Breathe - And You Have The Rolling Stones!

If You Stay Up, You Get The Songs That Everyone Else Misses Because They're Asleep.