“What I’d have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.”

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

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

I can’t remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

You are not your emotions, you have emotions,and you can master them.

I can’t wake you up. You can wake you up. I can’t cure you. You can cure you.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can’t kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We’d have to kill off the government.

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn’t see.

What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.

I wouldn’t say I was a born writer; I’m a born thinker.

Love is the Answer. What was the Question?

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

I want people talking about me when I’m gone.

I was lucky to be with Johnny… he taught me a lot about fame.

A celebrity now is someone who’s on the telly.

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn’t art, but the person you become when you’re famous – your alter ego – that’s art.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I cannot turn my life back around. I’m already a public figure, I’m famous. It’s like, I might as well keep it going, might as well make the money.

My mom has been calling me Peep my whole life. That’s how I got the name.