You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live?

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you.

If someone thinks that love & peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

We were on this ship in the 60s, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. The Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.