paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night

You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now -​ and a Beatles record -​ and we've been way apart,​ you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.