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

Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.

When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.

I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.