I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

An honest man is always a child.

Women love an honest man.

Lennon was such a great writer and exactingly honest. That was the thing that was defining about his songwriting – and is weirdly absent from so much songwriting today, and I don't understand why.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.