George Harrison Interview: Apple Offices, London 10/08/1969

DAVID: "Two of the most beautiful songs on 'Abbey Road' are from yourself when we've been so used to Lennon/McCartney compositions and of course people have been commenting this week about 'Something' and 'Here Comes The Sun,' which are your own compositions. How did this all happen. It's so unusual for you to contribute so much to an LP."
GEORGE: "Well, not really. I mean, the last album we did had four songs of mine on it. I thought they were alright. So I thought these, 'Something' and 'Here Comes The Sun' was ok... maybe a bit more commercial but as songs not much better than the songs on the last album. But I've been writing for a couple of years now. And there's been lots of songs I've written which I haven't got 'round to recording. So, you know, in my own mind I don't see what the fuss is, because I've heard these songs before and I wrote them, you know quite a while back. And it's really nice that people like the songs, but..."
DAVID: "You don't look upon yourself as a late developer as regards songwriting then? Because it's kind of hit everyone in that way, you know."
GEORGE: "Late, early, you know. What's late and what's early?"
DAVID: (laughs) "But you hadn't really got the reputation as yet as a songwriter, had you?"
GEORGE: "No, no. I wasn't Lennon or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, well if they can write them, I can write them. You know, 'cuz really, everybody can write songs if they want to. If they have a desire to and if they have sort of some musical knowledge and background. And then it's by writing them the same as writing books or writing articles or painting-- the more you do it, the better or the more you can undertstand how to do it. And I used to just write songs. I still do. I just write a song and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun' and some of them aren't, you know. But to me there's just songs and I just write them and some will be considered as good by maybe the masses and some won't. But to me they're just songs, things that are there that have to be got out."