Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine.

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

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.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.