People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about.

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.