We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.