We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.

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 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.