In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.