Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.

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.

We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together.

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.