“It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.”

“I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.”

“They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.”

“When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it”

“I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.”

“But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.”

“This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.”

“In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.”