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"Basically there are two types of people in the world: people who are confident because they know they have the ability to create, and then people who have been demoralised, who have no confidence in themselves because they have been told they have no creative ability, but must just take orders. The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves."
"Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best."
"The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves."
"Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it."
"Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history."
"Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times."
"Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too."
"When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky."
"Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day."
"Remember love. Remember our hearts are one. Even when we are fighting with each other, our hearts are beating in unison. I love you."
"My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that."
"Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown."
"It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating."
"If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something."
"I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive."
"Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980."
"Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know."
"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence."
"I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans."
"Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring."