I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.