“All we are saying is give peace a chance...”
“God is a concept by which we measure our pain.”
“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”
“Woman is the Nigger of the World.”
“The more I see the less I know for sure.”
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
“There's nothing you can know that isn't known.”
“You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.”
“I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.”
“I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.”
“Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.”
“And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.”
“Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.”
“You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.”
“We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.”
“Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
“When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.”
“I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?”
“My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.”
“We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.”
“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.”
“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
“Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.”
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.”
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock and roll or Christianity.”
“We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.”
“The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.”
“He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.”
“The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.”