I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.

I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.