"Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well."

"Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing."

"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it."

"George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money."

"As a kid, all I thought about was death."

"No one will die because of bad acting. No one will die because you missed a cue. We're all human beings. If mistakes are made, you figure out that you're going to live."

"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."

"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."