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.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

You don't have to be some sort of freak to meditate

It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.