There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

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.

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.