I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

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.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.