"It's hard to imagine what it must be like to be 8 years old, to have lost everything you know and to find yourself in a strange, unfamiliar and often hostile place. Life can be confusing at times for all children - for those who are living in fear and uncertain of their futures it must seem like a living nightmare. Please make these children count by supporting save the Children's campaign today." About the Forgotten Children Campaign.

"I've been brought up to be always doing something. And I enjoy acting. I didn't want to give that up."

“Anyone who professes to care about mankind as well as about animals cannot fail to see that controlled experimentation on animals in medical research is still essential. There may come a time in the distant future when techniques such as ‘growing’ skin in the laboratory becomes so successful that we can create enough non-animal material for research, but until that time I shall continue to support organisations such as SIMR and animal welfare organisations that make the lives of research animals as comfortable as possible.” Support for SIMR.

About Jane:

"Jane...possessed complete indepence...With her angelic looks went a strong mind and fortright manner...made her a companion altogether preferable to any of the brainless beauties..." - from Shout! The Beatles and Their Generation by Philip Norman

"Jane had a wonderful ability to but people at their ease. She had an air of seriousness and self-assurance rare in someone so young, combined with the energy of a teenager. She was outgoing, but her enthusiastic converstaion was informed by a fine education and years of experience as an actress, making her far more sophisticated than the average seventeen-year-old. She was also extremely pretty." - from Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now by Barry Miles.

"What can you say about a woman who is beautiful, thin, and irritatingly good at everything she does; who is happily married, acts, bakes cakes and writes novels, makes her own Christmas decoration and was once Paul McCartney girlfriend - except that she sounds like a right royal pain?
Jane Asher is a conundrum - the allrounder who slips in and out of roles apparently at whim. In the 80's she was reincarnated as a sort of Super housewife, the woman who did amusing things with icing sugar, opened a tea shop and wrote 14 books on everything from easy entertaining to baby burping. In between all this were colour-supplement pieces on her in a cream suit, serving minted pesto potatoes, julienne vegetables and golden saffroned salmon pie, over a candle lit 'effortless dinner party' at her Chelsea home; snippets about the long and happy marriage to Gerald Scarfe the cartoonist; the three children; the new jobs as consultant to McVitie's biscuits and Sainsbury's; the charities..." -From a 1995 interview with Jane Asher in Good Housekeeping magazine.

On Paul and Jane´s Relationship:

"I am not Paul (McCartney)'s wife - but yes, we are going to get married. We won't be married for a while yet, but when it happens we've got a family planned. First we want a boy and then come what may. There's no particular reason why we are not getting married right away, except that we're both pretty young." Jane.

"When they are all together, Paul is different. He isn't the same toward me as when we are alone. I want to feel that it's the two of us going through life together. I don't want to be part of a gang." Jane.

"I love Paul. I love him deeply, and he feels the same. I don't think either of us has looked at anyone else since we first met. I certainly would be surprised indeed if I married anyone but Paul." Jane. 

"I know it sounds corny, but we still see each other, and love each other, but it hasn't worked out. Perhaps we'll be childhood sweethearts and meet again, and get married when we're about seventy." Jane after breaking up with Paul.

"We all said, 'Will you marry me?' which is what we said to every girl at the time. Jane was a rare London bird, the sort we'd always heard about." Paul.

"Paul fell like a ton of bricks for Jane. The first time I was introduced to her was at her home and she was sitting on Paul's knee. My first impression of Jane was how beautiful and finely featured she was. Her mass of Titian-colored hair cascaded around her face and shoulders, her pale complexion contrasting strongly with dark clothes and shining hair. Paul was obviously as proud as a peacock with his new lady." Cynthia Lennon.

"Everyone close to Paul liked Jane and acknowledged her beneficial influence. For, in her clear-voiced way, she was as down to earth as any Liverpool girl. Alone of the entire female race, she refused to pamper and worship Paul. If Jane disagreed or disapproved, she said so. She could curb his ego, his use of charm as a weapon -- rather as John curbed the syrup in his music -- and yet do it in a way that commanded respect and a maturing love." Philip Norman - Shout.

"We nearly did get married. But it always used to fall short of the mark and something happened. And one of us would think it wasn't right...Jane and I had a long, good relationship." Paul.

"They couldn't believe I was a virgin." Jane (In reference to her meeting of the Beatles).

"When I came back after five months, Paul had changed so much. He was on LSD, which I knew nothing about. All he could talk about was the spiritual experiments he'd had with John." Jane.

"As is one's wont in relationships, you will from time to time argue or not see eye to eye on things, and a couple of the songs around this period were that kind of thing... I would write it out in a song and then I've got rid of the emotion. I don't hold grudges so that gets rid of that little bit of emotional baggage... I think it's my song totally. I don't remember any of John's assistance." Paul. (Talking about I'm Looking Through You, song he wrote after an argument with Jane.)

"[I'm Looking Through You is] Paul ['s]. He must have had an argument with Jane Asher." John Lennon

"I knew I was selfish. It caused a few [arguments]. Jane went off and I said, `OK then, leave. I'll find someone else.' It was shattering to be without her. That was when I wrote `I'm Looking Through You.'" Paul.

"Q: "I'd like to address a question to Paul McCartney. Would you confirm or deny the report of your marriage to Jane Asher in Seattle this evening?"

PAUL: (jokingly) "It's tonight, yeah."

Q: "What time and where?"

PAUL: "Tonight-- I can't tell you that, now can I?"

(laughter)

PAUL: "I couldn't tell ya... it's a secret."

GEORGE: "OK, it's a secret. We don't want all the people there, do we?"

Q: "You are confirming the report?"

PAUL: "No, not really. It was... it's a joke. Who started this? Anyone knows? Does anyone know? I just got in today and found out I was getting married tonight. No, she is not coming in tonight, as far as I know."

GEORGE: "And if she does, we are going out tonight anyway... so we'll miss her."

PAUL: (laughs)"

Beatles Press Conference: Seattle, Washington 8/27/66.

"Q: "Paul, are you planning to marry Jane Asher?"

PAUL: "Uhh, I haven't got any plans, you know. That's all. But everyone keeps saying I have. So maybe they know more than me."

 Beatles Press Conference. Toronto, Canada 8/17/65