Noel on the song’s placement on the record track:

There’s a kind of piano-y, John Lennon-y obligatory plod-away song in the middle, which Liam wrote, and that’s to break up the two sides (of the album) which are pretty intense, and it’s full-on from the start to finish.

Liam on his songwriting ability in relation to this song:

I didn’t go out to write a song like that, it just happened. I find it hard with words. If I found it easier with words I’d be huge. Bigger than WH Smith.

Liam on the writing process:

I got the verses and the music, the chorus took like years to write, I just couldn’t get anything. One day I was f—ing about and it just happened. I thought, ‘All right, that’s the song done. It’s f—ing done.’ I was playing it and the outro goes round and round, it needs something – obviously I’m a big John Lennon fan and it’s got a bit of a Lennon vibe, so I thought, ‘Well, I’ve got to find a bit of him speaking.’ So we went through all these old interviews, that’s the first one I found, and it just sort of worked. It’s not a tribute to John Lennon because if you sat down and tried to write a tribute to John Lennon it’d be f—ing rubbish, but it’s kind of a nod.

Liam looking back at the song in Q magazine (October 2008):

When I finished that, I thought, ‘yeah, man, there’s something in this writing business. I should keep it up and not throw in the towel.’ I think that was the one. Cos a lot of my songs, verses repeat and s–t like that. And I don’t have the big anthem chords. But I pulled that one off. I’m proud of that.