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It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.
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People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message. All this bit about electing a President. We pick our own daddy out of a dog pound of daddies.
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No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door.
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I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.
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It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
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I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
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I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money--but that's all the same thing, really.
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The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.
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We the band had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play...
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There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.
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It's amazing how low you go to get high.
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People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
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If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.
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When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
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I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.
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I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.
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It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's 'all you need is love and peace, baby.' Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are.
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We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?
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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
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With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.
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Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow