[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

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.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.

Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.