There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go