George Harrison

I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.

In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't important.

It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking pictures and asking questions.

Because we were all from Liverpool, we favored people who were street people.

I never listen to the radio to keep up with current trends.

I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn't disrespect my past.

Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up.

I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.

I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

I think it was John who really urged me to play sitar on 'Norwegian Wood,' which was the first time we used it. Now, Paul has just asked me recently whether I'd written any more of those 'Indian type of tunes.' He suddenly likes them now. But at the time, he wouldn't play on them.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.

The Beatles will go on and on.

I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.

The Beatles will exist without us.

Hippies are so phoney and fake.

Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.

I've always played around in my own mind with what a Wilburys tour could be. Would each person do a solo set and then do Wilburys at the end, or would we all go on right from beginning to end and make everything Wilburys? It's an intriguing thought.