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{{cquote|Paul did the first half, I did the middle-eight. But you've got Paul writing, 'We can work it out/ We ...you going to a psychiatrist, you allow yourself to say what you might not say in person.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

...down. Then 'Nowhere Man' came, words and music... the whole damn thing, as I lay down. So letting it go is what the whole game is. You put your finger o {{cquote|That was John after a night out, with dawn coming up. I think at that point in his life, he was a bit wondering where he was going.

| B-side = "[[Act Naturally]]"<br/>(US-1965) <br/>"[[I Should Have Known Better]]" (UK-1976) ...crambled Egg.' It was called 'Scrambled Egg' for a couple of months, until I thought of 'Yesterday.' And that's it. True story.|quotewidth=500px|Paul Mc

...trawberry Fields. And there was Penny Lane, and the Cast Iron Shore, which I've just got in some song now, and they were just good names &#151; just gro ...y saw, they were tortured by society for trying to express what they were. I saw loneliness.”|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|Interview, ''Playboy'', 198

| Next single = "[[Hello, Goodbye]]" /<br />"[[I Am The Walrus]]" <br />(1967) ...if you're going to say any message. That's a fine and wonderful message to say, really. So we just put the track down and the we did the vocal. So we've s

...s. It just doesn't matter that much. I care about being a song writer, but I don't care passionately about each song.|Paul McCartney|1966}} ...songs – "[[In My Life]]", or some of the early stuff, "[[This Boy]]" – I was writing melody with the best of them.|John Lennon, ''Playboy Interviews

| B-side = "[[I Am The Walrus]]" | This single = "Hello, Goodbye" / "[[I Am The Walrus]]"<br/>(1967)

| Name = I Feel Fine | Cover = i-feel-fine.jpg

| B-side = "[[Things We Said Today]]" (UK)<br/>"[[I Should Have Known Better]]" (US) | Next single = "[[I Feel Fine]]"<br/>(1964)

| Cover = i-feel-fine.jpg | A-side = "[[I Feel Fine]]"

...name. I walked 'round looking at the shops, and I saw the name Rigby. Then I took the song down to John's house in Weybridge. We sat around, laughing, g ...the actress we worked with in the film 'Help!' But I just liked the name. I was looking for a name that sounded natural. Eleanor Rigby sounded natural.

...eir hits. I still want to write a song about the places in Liverpool where I was brought up. Places like The Docker's Umbrella which is a long tunnel th ...'it's a Bach trumpet.' 'Can we use it,' he asked. 'Yes, of course we can,' I replied. It never occurred to me, but it occurred to him. So, we got the gu

| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]" ...very personally. 'Ah, it's me,' I said, 'It's me.' He says, 'No, it's me.' I said, 'Check. We're going through the same bit.' So we all are. Whoever is

| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]" ...haven't improved since I was last playing, but I dug it. It sounds the way I wanted it to sound.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}

| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]" ...e 'Get Back,' things like that. We recorded that one on the Apple roof but I'm not sure if that's the (single) that went out. We always record about ten

| prev_track = "[[I Am The Walrus]]" {{cquote|I think that's about the best track on the album, actually.|quotewidth=500px|

...Anyway, I've sent Klein a letter asking for some things to be altered, but I haven't received an answer yet."|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1988}} ...having to go to a psychiatrist. Songwriting often performs that feat-- you say it, but you don't embarrass yourself because it's only a song, or is it? Yo

{{cquote|I think George and I helped with some of the lyrics. I'm not sure.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}} ...too, because the lyrics are good and I didn't write them. You see? When I say that he could write lyrics if he took the effort-- here's an example.|quote

{{cquote|I might've given him a couple of lyrics, but it's his song, his lyric.|quotew ...ed bandmate straight in the eye. 'Let's do it your way.' [...] The remake, I had to admit, was quite good.|quotewidth=500px|Geoff Emerick, EMI Recording

| Name = I Want to Hold Your Hand | B-side = "[[This Boy]]" (UK)<br/>"[[I Saw Her Standing There]]"(US)

| B-side = "[[I'll Get You]]" | This single = "She Loves You" / "[[I'll Get You]]"<br/>(1964)

...haven't improved since I was last playing, but I dug it. It sounds the way I wanted it to sound.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}} ...ut that in about Chairman Mao. I was just finishing off in the studio when I did that.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1972}}

| Name = If I Needed Someone ...ve done it as their new single, but their version is not my kind of music. I think it's rubbish the way they've done it. They've spoilt it. They are all

...elf as Jesus. So I took him to the session. You know &#151; couldn't harm, I thought. Introduced Jesus to the guys. Quite reasonable about it. But that ...saw him after that. I introduced him to the guys. They said, 'Who's this?' I said, 'He's Jesus Christ.' We had a bit of a giggle over that.|quotewidth=5

...toys on stage; and I thought that that if we ever did get out there again, I was not going to be bombarded with tomatoes.|Ringo Starr, ''The Beatles Ant ...but it was a nice way to say it &#151; a very non-specific way to say it. I always liked that.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}}

.... The tune came first, then the first sentence ... ''we were talking'' ... I finished the words later. ...s, which are the bases of the different Ragas. That's why around this time I couldn't help writing tunes like this which were based upon unusual scales.

...nd white. There were whole big sequences that you just coudn't understand. I saw it on the telly and it just looked mad in black and white. [...] Everyo {{cquote|I loved it, because it was a trip, you know. Everyone was down on it, but it

...come and produce it like you used to? I said, 'Well, I'll produce it like I used to if you'll let me.' So Paul rounded up John, George and Ringo and we {{cquote|I don't like people explaining albums. The only way you can explain it is to

...to create his little turnip top. The photographer would always be able to say to us, 'Just show up,' because we all wore the same kind of gear all the ti ...s or anything &#151; to have any depth at all. They were just a joke. Then I started being me about the songs, not writing them objectively, but subject

...ve two songs on every album," and that wouldn't have been fun for Paul and I. It had to break.|John Lennon|1970}} ...e it!' But then, each one I went to said, 'I thought it was you three, and I was on my own. So, at least we cleared it up that we were all thinking a bi

#"[[I'm So Tired]]" #"[[I Will (The Beatles song)|I Will]]"

...couple of dates Paul wasn't on it at all, or John wasn't on it at all, or I wasn't on it at all. Probably only about five tunes altogether where one of {{cquote|The lyrics were disastrous and I knew it. Often you just block songs out and words just come into your mind

...is violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.|John Lennon|September 1980}} ...nd John contributed the legendary line 'It couldn't get much worse.' Which I thought was very good. Against the spirit of that song, which was all super

...I think George had a lot of difficulty forgiving me for that. It hurt him; I didn't mean to.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1984}} ...it now.' I recorded it, with a few alterations to make it work better, but I was hurt.|quotewidth=500px|George Martin, ''All You Need Is Ears''|1979|}}

...almost the first acid song, 'Lay down all thought, surrender to the void.' I took one of Ringo's malapropisms as the title.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon ...and you just find out later. I know that when there are some lyrics I dig, I know that somewhere people will be looking at them.|quotewidth=500px|John L

| Name = And I Love Her | Name = And I Love Her

...out at 10'17" with John's shout to the others and to the control room "OK, I've had enough!"|quotewidth=500px|Mark Lewisohn, ''The Beatles Recording Ses ...haven't improved since I was last playing, but I dug it. It sounds the way I wanted it to sound.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1968}}

| B-side = "[[I Don't Want to Spoil the Party]]" | Last single = "[[I Feel Fine]]"<br />(1964)

...g us led by Madalf Heatlump (Who only had one). Anyway they didn't get me. I attended to varicous schools in Liddypol. And still didn't pass-much to my ...own house, had our own garden, and they didn't have anything like that. So I was a bit of a fruit compared to them.|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interview

...means, so we never had a car, or a television till the coronation in 1953. I was the first one in the family to buy a car with my Beatle earnings. My mu ...ooh!' that would keep everyone on par, then somebody, probably John, would say, 'Winston Churchill.' 'Oh no!' and it would completely ruin everyone's conc

...n Brando's talking to Lee Marvin, Lee Marvin's saying to him "Look Johnny, I think such-and-such, the Beetles think that you're such-and-such..." as if John: I just thought of it.

...with. ... [''What about the title itself?''] I don't know ''how'' the hell I got to 'Norwegian wood'.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon, ''The Playboy Interv ...hey do tend to write themselves, providing you know how to write songs. So I picked it up at the second verse, it's a story. It's him trying to pull a b

| Name = I'll Cry Instead | Name = I'll Cry Instead

#"[[I Know Baby]]" (Sheridan) #"[[Hallelujah, I Love Her So]]" ([[Ray Charles]])

{{cquote|It was John's original idea, but it was very much co-written. I remember writing 'the pain and pleasure,' and 'a man must break his back.' ...he car and break down laughing. So I credit that as being towards John but I put quite a bit in. It wasn't one that he came in with fully finished at al

...try, or whatever you call it, without chewin' it, it stands. See, the ones I like are the ones that stand as words without melody, that don't have to ha ...cord of it. I think subsconsciously sometimes we &#151; I say 'we,' though I think Paul did it more than the rest of us; Paul ... sort of subconsciously

...he just sort of had a bit of a verse, and a couple of words, and the idea. I think he had some other name or something. He used to talk Double-Dutch Fre ...go to a party or something. That's all it was. And then after a while you say, 'Well, that's quite a good tune. Let's put some real words to it.'|Paul Mc

...expression I had ... was 'It will turn up all right in the end.' I used to say that to my friend Pete who was in the Quarrymen, which is the name of the g ...o and loved it. I met John that day. I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That wa

| Name = I'm Looking Through You ...oking through you, and you're ''not there''! I think it's totally my song. I don't remember any of John's assistance.|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney, '

...ou can view it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp3iSRUyjnU&t=2s HERE] ... I posted a comment requesting that he credit the BeatlesWiki story, at the ve Which is to say, it's not a fake or in any way doctored.

#"[[I'm So Tired]]" #"[[I Will (The Beatles song)|I Will]]"

#"[[I'm So Tired]]" #"[[I Will (The Beatles song)|I Will]]"

I AM FOREVER walking upon these shores, Once I filled my hand with mist.

...of the Quarrymen performing at the Rosebery Street party on June 22, 1957. I had used the photo to support [[Paul_McCartney_in_Audience_Watching_The_Qua ...after the second World War. I don't remember the war years very well, but I don't think we went very far from the house until it was over in '45. Liver