"As us kids all remember, rock and roll was a great big thing, and it was a revolution, and it was freedom."

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

"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."

"I always think I should have done it. Presumably, she would have allowed it."

"I'm not a perfect person. I'm a human being."