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.

Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.

We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

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.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.