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" People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking. "

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" I loved everything that went with rock n' roll. I loved being at the heart of such creativity and being young in such a stimulating and exciting era. "

Pattie Boyd

Creativity

Young

Rock

" It wasn't until I realised that I could actually take nice photographs that I started to become passionate about it. I then got a few jobs working for magazines in London, and I would get terribly excited and intense about doing a job and taking photographs and looking through the lens to capture something amazing. "

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

" 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'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day. "

Pattie Boyd

Future

Day

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I've been avoiding journalists my whole life. "

" I was a firm believer that if you get married, then that should be it. But it's sadly not always the case; sometimes people can't remain together for whatever reason. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Pattie Boyd

Left

Expect

" 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. "

Pattie Boyd

Fish

Never

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

" 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. "

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

" It's such a joy to be able to have friendships free from worry. It's so lovely to live without fear. "

" 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. "

" People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful! "

" Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "