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“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”

“When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.”

“When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’
When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.”

“Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.”

“We're constantly being asked all sorts of very profound questions. But we're not very profound people. People say, 'What do you think of the H-bomb, of religion, of fan worship?' But we didn't really start thinking about these things until people asked us. And even then we didn't get much time to consider them. What do I think of the H-bomb? Well, here's an answer with the full weight of five O levels and one A level behind it: I don't agree with it.”

The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 109

“Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us.
When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away”

"Lovely Rita" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Lyrics, The Beatles

“She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.”

About Queen Elizabeth II, in an interview after the Beatles received their MBEs from her (26 October 1965)

“We probably seem to be anti-religious…none of us believes in God.”

Hit Parader (January 1970)

“Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.”

The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 96