Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Woman is the Nigger of the World.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.