People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.

Some people say, "Sometimes I have violent thoughts, what can I do?" So I say, "Well, have them!" Cos we should not try to control ourselves. It's very bad to control ourselves in this sense. If you have any emotion at all, if its a bad emotion or good emotion, think about it, you should just understand that you have those emotions. And it's good because we are people and we have all these emotions. And the result of that is you would become more and more peaceful. If you don't let those emotions be inside of you then you become extremely violent.

We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people.

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?