We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

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.

There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it.