“It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.”

“I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.”

“Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.”

“You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.”

“You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?”

“If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.”

“They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.”