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.

That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?