Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.

In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

Life happens whilst you're planning other things.

As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.