George Harrison, photographed by Ringo Starr; photo © Ringo Starr.Q: “Do you think people

George Harrison, photographed by Ringo Starr; photo © Ringo Starr.Q: “Do you think people have got the wrong impression of you over the years?” George Harrison: “In that they think I’m serious, yeah. I have serious moments but I’m totally the opposite really. I think with ‘My Sweet Lord’ period and ‘Bangla Desh’ and the late ‘60s it did become political and everybody did get a bit serious but I never lost a sense of humor. That’s why people couldn’t believe I was making Monty Python’s Life of Brian.” Q: “They thought of you as a spiritual, religious type locked away in the house in Henley.” GH: “Well my concept of religion and spirituality isn’t Cliff Richard and the Shadows and Billy Graham. It’s very free, you know.” - Q, 1988“I think I’ve had an image, people have had a concept of me being really straight ‘cause I was the serious one or something. But actually, I mean, I’m the biggest lunatic around; one of them anyway… I don’t know, in a way I’m serious, but not necessarily about the things people would think I’d be serious about. And I’m completely comical, you know? I like craziness. I had to in order to be in The Beatles. [laughs]” - George Harrison, A Personal Music Dialogue With George Harrison At 33 & 1/3, 1976“I’ve always been very silly [chuckles]… And the thing is if I don’t crack a smile, my face just looks serious anyway. And I think what they did is, they pigeonholed me into this thing, Oh, he’s the mystical one, the spiritual one, or he’s the boring one, or whatever. And consequently they missed out on some of the jokes I was putting in there [the songs].” - George Harrison, In The Studio With Redbeard, 1992Q: “What’s the most popular misconception about you that people have?” George Harrison: “That I am serious. Pisces are depicted as two fish going in opposite directions. Many people do not see my humorous side.” - MSN web chat, 15 February 2001 (x) -- source link

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