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Polythene Pam was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave us our first exposure - this is so long - you can't deal with all this. You see, everything triggers amazing memories. I met him when we were on tour and he took me back to his apartment and I had a girl and he had one he wanted me to meet. He said she dressed up in polythene, which she did. She didn't wear jackboots and kilts, I just sort of elaborated. Perverted sex in a polythene bag. Just looking for something to write about.
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When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.
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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.
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We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
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I get by with a little help from my friends.
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I believe that God is like a powerhouse, like where you keep electricity, like a power station. And that he's a supreme power, and that he's neither good not bad, left, right, black or white. He just is. And we tap that source of power and make of it what we will. Just as electricity can kill people in a chair, or you can light a room with it. I think God is.
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Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.
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I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
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I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'...
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Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes They call me on and on across the universe Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe...
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The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.
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I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.
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Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
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I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.
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After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.
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Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place.
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I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control...
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Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.
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In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.
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Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.
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When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
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I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.