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

Please don’t spoil my day; I’m miles away and, after all, I’m only sleeping.

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.

Imagine there's no varmints. It isn't hard to do.

Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.