The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

Tell the truth and make it rhyme

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.