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"That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour."
"We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections"
"What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them."
"I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker."
"Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor."
"Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you."
"The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all."
"Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved."
"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."
"We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did."
"Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head"
"We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer."
"Rituals are important."
"Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable."
"As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way."
"I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity."
"I like rock & roll, and I don't like much else."
"What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame."
"Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music."
"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."