The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never let go; they don't understand the meaning of "to transcend" the intellect.

It's a matter of turning your consciousness inward in order to then realize that God is in there, and then you can see him outside too. It's just a shift in attitude, really.

While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.

I've been the same all along. I talk when I feel like it and I shut up when I don't feel like talking.

I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must admit I occasionally listen to our records, but usually it's not deliberate. I'm more concerned with the present, with working out my own individual style and producing something new and worthwhile.

I am part of the cycle, rebirth death, rebirth death, rebirth death.