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"Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that."
"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."
"One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you"
"Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible."
"I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing 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. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep."
"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."
"I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore"
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life."
"All we are saying is give peace a chance."
"It's weird not to be weird."
"I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
"When you cross the street, take my hand"
"They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life."
"There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see."
"There are no problems, only solutions."
"Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place."
"Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them"
"Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else."
"The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace."
"Whatever gets you through the night"