I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'

Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you

Life is what's going on while your making other plans.

The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.

Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.