My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Tell the truth and make it rhyme

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be.

I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty.

We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.