Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.

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.

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.