'ditch the covers; covers are lame'

I don't see it that way. It's all this purist rock nonsense which is making rock a dying art. Paul is an old jazzer and owns a lot of songs that I like. The covers bring different emotional colours, and that's precisely why they're scary. It's easy to mock a rock album because they're so self-serious, but my albums are lighter. There's skits; there's old standards; there's new songs. I'm not encouraging people to vote by being a rockstar Jesus: I'm being me. Get Back is all about how the Beatles did covers for fun. - Bluntly, it puts me in dialogue with my tradition, rather than pretending it never existed. Given y'all are spending huge amounts of money telling me to do Beatles covers for you, it's a pretty stupid criticism to level at my albums.