"I don't like to be told what to do. I like to do what I want to do."

"Having played with other musicians, I don't think the Beatles were that good."

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."

"I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me."

"I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field …"