I Was Feeling Insecure You Might Not

All Kids Draw And Write Poetry And Everything, And Some Of Us Last Until We're About Eighteen, But Most Drop Off At About Twelve When Some Guy Comes Up And Says, "you're No Good." That's All We Get Told All Our Lives. "you Haven't Got The Ability. You're A Cobbler." It Happened To All Of Us, But If Somebody Had Told Me All My Life, "yeah, You're A Great Artist," I Would Have Been A More Secure Person.

I Still Don't Know How To Express The Really Delicate Personal Stuff. People Think That Plastic Ono Is Very Personal, But There Are Some Subtleties Of Emotions Which I Cannot Seem To Express In Pop Music, And It Frustrates Me. Maybe That's Why I Still Search For Other Ways Of Expressing Myself. Song Writing Is A Limiting Experience In Some Ways - Writing Down Words That Have To Rhyme.

Life Is Very Short, And There's No Time For Fussing And Fighting My Friends

I Don't Bother So Much About The Others' Songs. For Instance, I Don't Give A Damn About How 'something' Is Doing In The Charts - I Watch 'come Together' (the Flip Side) Because That's My Song.

From Our Earliest Days In Liverpool, George And I On The One Hand And Paul On The Other Had Different Musical Tastes. Paul Preferred 'pop Type' Music And We Preferred What Is Now Called 'underground'. This May Have Led To Arguments, Particularly Between Paul And George, But The Contrast In Tastes, I'm Sure, Did More Good Than Harm, Musically Speaking, And Contributed To Our Success.