I think the Beatles is one band that, if I'm working on a song arrangement or if I have some idea for a song, and there's a little bit of a Beatles quality to it, I never avoid that. I always will steer into it.
Listening to the Beatles' music figures into pretty much all of my childhood memories.
When I was a kid, thinking of just being near a Beatle was an unattainable dream.
The Beatles and I became fast friends.
John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.
It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them.
The Beatles are the 'on switch' to my life.
The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.
My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.
When the Beatles broke up, I thought to myself, 'Dude, seriously?'
Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.
If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.
The Beatles were perfect. There's just no other way to say it. They were the perfect band.
If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.
The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.
The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.
As every teenage girl, I was absolutely obsessed with The Beatles, and the first record I bought was 'Please Please Me.' I'd have been 13 at the time.
I knew Paul when he was in the Beatles. We did the second Beatles British tour with the Moody Blues. And we became friends. I went to a couple of the sessions for the 'Sgt. Pepper' album, we went to parties together, we went to see Jimi Hendrix together.
I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.
People say the Beatles were John Lennon. What is Paul McCartney? Chopped liver? But everyone has their own favourite members whose creativity they gravitate to. That's normal.
In terms of what influenced me, I grew up on The Beatles, and I always was struck by their dry British sense of humor.
I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the stereo. I liked Ringo Starr, of course. And Sandy Nelson. I had his record, 'Let There Be Drums,' and I'd play along with it.
I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
I would love to work with a Beatle: Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr.
The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.
