All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?

I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.