I said to myself, 'I'm gonna make a good album.' I gave myself a task,

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

I remember 'Happy Together.' That was a good record. It knocked 'Penny Lane' off the top of the charts.