Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.