Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

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.

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

Love is needing to be loved.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

When real music comes to me - the music of the speres, the music that surpasseth understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium...those moments are what I live for.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.