"I'm not a prophet. I'm just a guy who writes songs."

"We were all on this ship in the '60s, our little yellow submarine."

"It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out like an old rock star."

"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."

"The world is a funny place. It's full of strange people and strange things."