If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

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.

If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole

I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.

Getting out of one car and getting into another

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.