I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

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

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'.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.