We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head

I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.

The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.

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

Rituals are important.