My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it

There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...

After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.