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

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

People don't remember that during the Fifties and Sixties there was a Cold War, and kids were getting under their desks during school because they thought they were going to get bombed. So it wasn't really that ideal at all.

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

I think I'm one of the people who brought about peace in Ireland.

I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.