"I don't pretend to be a guru. I'm just a guy who writes songs."

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother told me there was no Santa Claus, and Father had died just a few weeks before, and he'd always played Santa Claus. So I knew that I was not go…"

"I am a most unhappy man. I am a most unhappy man. I am a most unhappy man. I am a most unhappy man."

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first – rock 'n' roll o…"

"I always was a freak, you know. I was a freak since I was a child. I'm a freak now. I like being a freak. I don't care if I'm a freak."