It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.

I believe time wounds all heels.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.