It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now.

So it's the unwinding of your nervous system. The corresponding experience to what winds you up comes out in your dreams. To write a song then, even one like Don't Bother Me, helps to get rid of some subconscious burden. Writing a song is like going to confession.

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly

I know, by the Lord's grace, I am a small part in the cosmic play.

A lot of people went underground with their spiritual life in the seventies, but they're out there in little nooks and crannies and in the countryside, people who look and dress straight, insurance salesmen types, but they're really meditators and chanters, closet devotees.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

And the time will come when you see, we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.