beatles blog

„What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people‘s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you‘re playing.“

„It’s as if I never recovered from it: the inaccessible other, occupying all my thoughts. The death of so many of my friends in my youth will aggravate this tendency. Their premature disappearance will further plunge me into depths of sorrow and uncertainty. I will have to learn how to survive them, and perhaps writing is a good means of survival. A way of not forgetting the ones who have disappeared, of continuing a dialogue. The source of this missing and longing can be found in this first desertion, this imbecilic burning love.”

„He was so open. In anybody else, this could be embarrassing. But John had this honesty in his eyes that made you go for him. Had an intensity too. He was a one-off. Like me. We were attracted to each other in a strange way. Definitely a two-alpha clash to start with.“