I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.

Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented.