We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.

They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.

Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.'

I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul.

My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?

Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -​ so they promise. And I believe it, too.

Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.

I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman I don't believe in Beatles I just believe in me.

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.

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