Pattie Boyd

“I can't rewrite history.”

“I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.”

“One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be.”

“I had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expect when I left him to join Eric Clapton on his 1974 U.S. tour.”

“It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them.”

“I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective.”

“I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue.”

“I'm blessed with the fact that I'm a fighter. I've always known life was meant to be joyful.”

“During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters.”

“I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.”

“Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.”

“Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection.”

“I never wanted to be an actress. I didn't have any ambition in that area.”

“I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It's really sad. It's all about them. It's not about their wives at all.”

“I wasn't really terribly familiar with the Beatles when I met George. They were just emerging. They certainly weren't as big as they became later on. I just knew them as a pop group, and that's all. I was keener on George as a man and a person, as opposed to someone in a band.”

“I think there's a path cut for us, a destination mapped out. Everyone ends up where they're meant to be, and how they got there doesn't really matter.”

“When you're married to somebody iconic, people tend to notice him.”

“I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.”

“I think modelling is a very difficult thing. It's glamorous and fun, but underneath it all, you know your flaws, and those are what you focus on.”

“I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.”