Part of me suspects that I’m a loser and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.
Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn’t been an Elvis, there wouldn’t have been the Beatles.
My role in society – or any artist or poet’s role – is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
Love is a flower you got to let it grow.
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.
Limitless undying love, which shines around me like a million suns, it calls me on and on across the universe.
It’s just natural, it’s not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it’s The End of The Earth. It’s only a rock group that split up, it’s nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.
Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people, sharing all the world…
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.
If people take any notice of what we say, we say we’ve been through the drug scene, man, and there’s nothing like being straight.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we’d have peace.
I’ve always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won’t be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that’s a long, long time.