Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

Whatever gets you through the night is all right.

When I was five years old my mother told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy." They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again.

I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.