What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

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

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.

What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them.

Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.