I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

Getting out of one car and getting into another

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest place on earth. . . I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?