I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.

After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.

I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.

I believe that time wounds all heals. (karma)

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.