As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed.

A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage.

If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole