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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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Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?
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Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
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I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
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The more I see the less I know for sure.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
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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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Your inside is out and your outside is in.
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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 only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love 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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The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
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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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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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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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Love is the Answer. What was the Question?
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When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.
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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 feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!
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I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.
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Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.
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As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.
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The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you.