I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay."

The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!