“I wanted to be successful, not famous.”

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street; if you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature.

Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life.

We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don’t want to die, you don’t get born!

Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

With our love, we could save the world.

It’s all in the mind.

Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Heaven and hell is right now. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

And the time will come when you see, we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.

You’ve got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven.

People always say I’m the Beatle who changed the most, but really that’s what I see life is about… you have to change.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don’t know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.