JOHN: "Pardon?"

RINGO: "Very tiring."

JOHN: "It was sort of like a plane trip, you know... Boring."

RINGO: "We've been going seventeen hours now, you know."

Q: "How often do you get haircuts?"

JOHN: "Uhh, about once every three weeks."

Q: "Each of you?"

PAUL: "Yeah. Actually, it's cut."

Q: "This is your second trip to San Francisco, are you going to see more of it this time than you did last?"

RINGO: "Well, I only saw the airport last time, so I've seen more already."

JOHN: "Can you direct your questions so that everybody can hear them, please?"

PAUL: "Just a minute... Here's Derek. I'd like to introduce you..."

GEORGE: "A big hand for Mr. Taylor."

JOHN: "This is our press representative."

Q: "Who is your tailor?"

PAUL: "A fella called Millings of London."

Q: "In Savile Row?"

JOHN: "No."

Q: "Where?"

PAUL: "A little back street in London."

JOHN: "Old Compton Road. He keeps moving with all the profit he makes... Hmmmm hmmmm, he said."

Q: Are you working on another movie soon?"

PAUL: "Yes, in February."

Q: "Is it coming out then?"

RINGO: "No, we start making it."

JOHN: "We start making it then."

Q: "How frightened were you getting in that cage today?"

JOHN: "What cage?"

PAUL: "At the airport."

JOHN: Uh, it wasn't bad, 'cuz somebody had been up there and tested it."

RINGO: "In fact, all the press went up and tested it."

Q: "Why did you leave so soon?"

RINGO: "We got told, you know."

JOHN: "Some people said, 'Climb up on the thing,' and then we wave, and then they said, 'Get off,' You know. And we come down and wave."

PAUL: "And so we got off, you know. We're very obedient."

JOHN: "Oh we are! Arf arf!"

Q: "Do you think San Franciscans are any worse than any other place in the world?"

BEATLES: "No!"

PAUL: (sings) "'San Francisco.' Good town."

Q: "The people... the crowd that you had... Were they any worse?"

PAUL: "Marvelous. Very good crowds."

JOHN: How do you mean, 'worse'? What's he mean, 'worse'?"

Q: "Why did you start the tour in San Francisco?"

RINGO: "Well, you'd better ask someone else. I don't know."

JOHN: We don't plan the tours. They're planned for us, you see. We just say we don't want to go to, sort of, Buh-boo-boo land... and we leave the rest of the world open. It's all planned for us with a hearty, healthy Hey! Jolly good."

PAUL: "True."

Q: "How do you like not having any privacy?"

PAUL: "We do have some, you know."

JOHN: "We just had some before. Didn't we, Paul?"

PAUL: "We don't have alot."

Q: (to John) "Your hair looks like it's red. Is it red or is it wind-blown?"

JOHN: "Red? Oh no. Well, I've had a shower, you see. It sometimes goes a bit funny. You know, one can never tell... One gets underwater."

Q: "Ringo? You didn't look too happy when you got off the airplane."

RINGO: "If you'd been on it fifteen hours, how would you look?"

JOHN: "How would he look, Ringo?"

RINGO: "Look at him now!"

Q: "Which one of you is married?"

RINGO: "John's married. We'll all get married in the end."

JOHN: "Will you?"

RINGO: "In the end. Two or three years, you know. Plenty of time."

JOHN: "Do you mean you're not 'funny' like the rumor says?"

PAUL: "Lots of rumors in America."

Q: (to John) "Are you writing now?"

JOHN: "Yes. I wrote all the way over on the plane."

Q: "'Partly Dave' and that sort of thing?"

JOHN: "No. I've already written that one, thank you. I wrote 'Snore Wife and the Seven Dwarts.'"

Q: "What is the name of the next movie?"

RINGO: "We don't know yet?"

Q: "When is it coming out?"

RINGO: "We don't know. We don't start it until February."

Q: "Now that you've made a movie, do you dig the acting bit?"

JOHN: "We don't profess to be actors."

PAUL: "Besides... it's only Americans that 'dig.'"

JOHN: "Dig?"

PAUL: "Dig your baby, daddy!"

JOHN: "Oh, I get it."

PAUL: "With it!!"

Q: "In America, the current slang is: 'tough,' 'boss,' and 'dig.' What are some of England's?"

RINGO: "Fab... Gear."

JOHN: "They're ever-changing, you know, Madam. 'Alec Douglas-Hume,' That's a big one. 'Wilson,' Everyone does it."

PAUL: "Harold Wilson?"

JOHN: "Always."

PAUL: "There's alot of slang. 'Barry Goldwater.'"

JOHN: "That's a new one over there. It means, 'Drag.'"

Q: "What does it mean over there?"

JOHN: No, it means... uh... 'Happy days are here again.'"

PAUL: "Said he."

Q: "Are you going to be back in time for the elections?"

JOHN: "Back here?"

Q: "No. Back in England."

JOHN: "Are they having them again?"

GEORGE: "They have 'em every week."

JOHN: "Drat."

Q: "Ringo, how do you feel about the 'Ringo for President' campaign?"

RINGO: "Well, it's rather... It's marvelous!"

Q: "Assuming you were President of the United States, would you make any political promises?"

RINGO: "I don't know, you know. I'm not sort of politically minded."

JOHN: "Aren't you?"

RINGO: "No, John. Believe me."

PAUL: "I think you should be President."

JOHN: "I saw you dancing with Bessie Braddock."

Q: "How do the other guys feel about Ringo being nominated for President?"

JOHN: "We think he should win, you know."

PAUL: "Yes, we think he should."

GEORGE: "Definitely in favor."

Q: "Ringo, would you nominate the others as part of your cabinet?"

RINGO: "Well, I'd have to... wouldn't I?"

GEORGE: "I could be the door."

RINGO: "I'd have George as treasurer."

JOHN: "I could be the cupboard."

RINGO: "He looks after the money."

Q: "Are you going to be visiting Miami again this year?"

GEORGE: "No."

RINGO: "Not unless it's on the tour."

JOHN: "Aren't we?"

GEORGE: "We're going to Florida to do a show in Jacksonville... the Gator Bowl. But we won't be going to Miami."

Q: "Is Liverpool going to win the first division this year?"

RINGO: "I don't know, I don't follow football, you know."

Q: "You don't follow football?"

RINGO: "No. I don't follow football! You got the message. I don't know, are they winning or something?"

JOHN: "We don't like any sport. Waste of time."

PAUL: "Swimming."

JOHN: "No, we can all swim."

Q: "John, when do you write your next book?"

JOHN: "Uhh, well... All the time, you know."

Q: "Do you keep little notes?"

JOHN: "Yes... here and there."

Q: "Ringo, can we see your rings?"

PAUL: "Show 'em. Go on."

JOHN: "Show him."

Q: "Ringo, can you look this way and hold your rings up?"

JOHN: (jokingly) "Could you do it again, Ringo?"

PAUL: "Ringo, just one more for the east coast! One more for the east coast!"

JOHN: "I've got it! I've got it!"

RINGO: "Have you got it?"

JOHN: "Oh, me flash is gone."

PAUL: "One for 'Life' magazine."

JOHN: "Ha ha ha, eh Ringo?"

RINGO: "'Life'? That's a big magazine."

Q: "Ringo, you're on the cover."

RINGO: "Are we?"

JOHN: "Are we?"

Q: "What do you boys plan to do in San Francisco other than sleep?"

JOHN: "Sleep."

RINGO: "Just play the 'Cow Palace,' that's about it."

Q: "You're not going to see the town?"

RINGO: "No, we're not going to see your beautiful city that we've heard so much about."

Q: "Why not?"

GEORGE: "It'd take too much organization, wouldn't it?"

RINGO: Oh, you wouldn't see anyway, just speeding along in a car."

JOHN: "Help, Derek! They're getting out of hand!"

Source: Transcribed by www.beatlesinterviews.org from audio copy of the press conference