Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

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.

It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?

Love is a promise; love is a souvenir.