"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest …"

"If you go to a psychiatrist, you're going to get a label. If you go to a guru, you're going to get a label. If you go to a priest, you're going to get a label. I don't want a label."

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or…"

"I'm not a pacifist. I'm a violent man, but I'm a violent man for peace."

"I've always been a rebel. I've always been a non-conformist."