It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's 'all you need is love and peace, baby.' Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.

I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.

[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.

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 was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?

What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.