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Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...
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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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We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
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I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.
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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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The more I see the less I know for sure.
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The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'
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I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.
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The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
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Your inside is out and your outside is in.
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Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on stage and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine.
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It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too.
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I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!
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I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!
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I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?
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Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.
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When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
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I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.
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When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
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I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.
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Love is the Answer. What was the Question?
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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
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The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you.