One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.