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.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.