I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.

The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now -​ and a Beatles record -​ and we've been way apart,​ you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy.

I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.