You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.

Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.

I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.