I don't want to grow up but I'm sick of not growing up -​ that way. I'll find a different way of not growing up. There's a better way of doing it than torturing your body.

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.

At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.

I feel now at 53 I have grown into a deeper understanding of what a human life is.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.