When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another

I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control