My idea in "My Sweet Lord," because it sounded like a "pop song," was to sneak up on them a bit. The point was to have the people not offended by "Hallelujah," and by the time it gets to "Hare Krishna," they're already hooked, and their foot's tapping, and they're already singing along "Hallelujah," to kind of lull them into a sense of false security. And then suddenly it turns into "Hare Krishna," and they will all be singing that before they know what's happened, and they will think, "Hey, I thought I wasn't supposed to like Hare Krishna!" Interview with Mukunda Goswami (4 September 1982)
It just annoyed me that people got so into the Beatles. "Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." It's not that I don't like talking about them. I've never stopped talking about them. It's "Beatles this, Beatles that, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." Then in the end, it's like "Oh, sod off with the Beatles," you know? Interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street, aired 12 December 1987
I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front. Interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street, aired 12 December 1987
He was annoyed 'cause I didn't say that he'd written one line of this song "Taxman." But I also didn't say how I wrote two lines of "Come Together" or three lines of "Eleanor Rigby," you know? I wasn't getting into any of that. I think, in the balance, I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have had with me! When asked about John Lennon's feelings towards George's autobiography, interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street, aired 12 December 1987
Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone. Quoted in The Beatles — After the Break-up : In Their Own Words (1991) by David Bennahum, p. 54
I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything. of first taking LSD, The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 177
If everybody who had a gun just shot themselves there wouldn’t be a problem. The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 226
You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it. The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 267
That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.' The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 296