“I was thinking about the boy whose name is Julian, and I started this idea, 'Hey Jules, don’t make it bad.'”
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“Writing songs is almost like therapy; you can go in kind of angry or sad, and it makes the song better because it’s real feelings in it.”
“I thought it was a great character, so I started this song about a lonely old lady who picks up the rice in the church.”
“We didn't need a click track... if you were a good band, you just had to hold the tempo.”
“I can kind of follow sheet music, but if it gets complicated, I can't really read it.”
“I had a dream... my mother came to me in the dream and said, 'Don't worry, it's gonna be fine, just let it be.'”
“The great thing about 'Yesterday' was it kind of wrote itself. I just woke up one morning and thought, 'What's that? I like that tune.'”
“I think the Beatles was when I was about 19.”
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